Within a recent, two-day period, Indianapolis media reported on two separate, ugly incidents. In Greenwood, racist flyers were distributed on cars parked at the Greenwood Park Mall; in Carmel, anti-Semitic tracts were thrown on driveways in selected neighborhoods.
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Author Archives: Sheila
Inconsistencies
Most of us profess to admire people of principle, but that admiration is often distressingly abstract. In real life, people who stand on principle are likely to find that they have stepped into the line of everyone’s fire.
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Educating for New Realities
One of the ironies of the recently concluded IPS busing litigation was the strong desire of the townships to continue receiving minority students. Those of us who followed the original desegregation suit recall that suburban school systems were then–how shall we put it– less eager to include such students.
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Defending Parental Rights
Among the most precious rights of parenthood is our right to raise our children in accordance with our own religious beliefs, free of government interference. Clergy are usually among the fiercest defenders of that right. Ministers and rabbis are more..
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Son of CDA
I recently caught Senator Dan Coats on one of the morning news shows, and I immediately thought of Ronald Reagan’s famous debate line, "There you go again!"…
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