If you live in a good neighborhood you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team too. They'd never seen anything like it.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.
Religious faith depends on a host of social psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities evidence and logic.
For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.