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

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly fluid. The same is true for love. Love was not something that was originally built between two equal partners in a relationship. It's something that's been hard-earned over time.

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

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

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