There were many heroes who risked their lives and in some cases lost their lives during the zenith of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1968 (from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 until MLK's assassination in Memphis…

While I was on vacation in Montana, our good friend Father Joe passed. What a remarkable servant of God he was. I first met Father Joe in 1985 and several years later was honored to represent him in a lawsuit…

My hero of the month is Shon Boney. The Boney family were very good friends of my family dating back to the late 1930s when my dad Earl Roberts first met Henry Boney (Shon's granddad). My dad lived in La…

In 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Nina Rosenwald at her office in The Chrysler Building in New York City while leading a national referendum in the Presbyterian Church USA. Later, I learned that she was the granddaughter of…

On May 27, 2019, Bill Buckner died at the age of 69. We got to know Bill and his wife Jody on a week-long rafting trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River almost 20 years ago and thoroughly…

There has been a debate in law enforcement circles for several years about the best response to the all-too-frequent situations involving armed attacks on schools. The emerging consensus seems to support immediate and direct intervention even at the risk of…

In an era when politics has definitely gotten nastier, it is worth remembering a kind and good man who always conducted himself with dignity and stayed the course as a moderate. Dick Lugar (R- Indiana) passed this month at the…

  This month's hero is a man who has answered a desperate call for a unique kind of help to save the lives of endangered sea turtles. As the Arctic ice melts and the polar vortex sweeps lower each winter,…

Like most people I know, the  greatest debt of gratitude in my life is my parents: because they did so much to instill in me the right values and supported me with endless acts of kindness, and they also sacrificed for…