But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

We're in a hyper-connected world, and there's a crisis of connection. The first thing that God says about woman and man in the Bible is that it's not right for humans to be alone. Social media interaction cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction. If anything, it prevents us from doing that. We're staring into our screens for so long that we're forgetting to look at the people directly in front of us.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.