For John Mahony,
a retired United States Army colonel who was managing projects for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, instinct came before analysis as he fought to stay on his feet the morning of September 11, 2001.
On the evening
of September 20, many friends of the Library, staff, and interested people from the Boston community gathered in the Hall of Ideas and its adjacent Quotes Cafe to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
Seven years after
Hurricane Katrina toppled a nearby floodwall and drowned their synagogue, and after a seven-year journey praying in hotel meeting rooms, then in rooms borrowed and rented from another congregation, the 100 or so families of Congregation Beth Israel are finally home.
After the movie theater
massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and a deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Americans are divided on gun control, and within certain religious groups, attitudes are far from ambivalent.
