by Dr. Monty Knight | Feb 7, 2013 | Religion
I recently attended the occasion of a professional associate being installed as the “minister” of a Unitarian Universalist “church.” The quotes refer to my observation that, in such a context, “minister” and “church” are...
by Dr. Monty Knight | Jan 31, 2013 | Ethics
Dear Barbara, As with most of the interesting articles you pass along to me, I appreciated the recent piece entitled “Leeches, Lye and Spanish Fly,” an horrific describing of so many different dangerous ways women through the years have sought to perform...
by Dr. Monty Knight | Jan 24, 2013 | Religion and Politics
Could anything more dramatically illustrate the wisdom of the First Amendment to our nation’s Constitution in clarifying the relation of religion and politics in our public life than the recent dustup over who was to do the praying at President Obama’s...
by Dr. Monty Knight | Jan 16, 2013 | Psychology
A friend recently shared a penetrating parable with me. He grew up in a prominent South American country, and he tells me his grandmother–he didn’t identify her as maternal or paternal–that she was a primary parenting/mentoring figure in his life. A...
by Dr. Monty Knight | Jan 10, 2013 | Children and Families
I suspect you’ve heard of “The Peter Principle,” from the best-selling 1969 book bearing that title–the observation that, in most organizations, people get promoted to their highest level of incompetence. Here, however, is “Peter’s...
