Today's post is from Marilyn Sewell, Minister Emerita at the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon. Sewell is the author of Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Mid-Life and Beyond and Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhood, and the editor of... Read more →

With Black Friday on the horizon (just past a plate of roast veggies and turkey), the Etsy blog interviewed Stacy Mitchell, author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses about shopping local... Read more →

Today's post is from Danielle Ofri, writer and practicing internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients. This post originally appeared... Read more →

Second-parent adoption has proved a powerful legal device for gay and lesbian families, but is it really fair to make a parent adopt their own child? Read more →

In honor of National Adoption Month, Amie Klempnauer Miller shares the story of adopting her daughter in a second-parent adoption. Read more →

The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died last week, a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday. Levi-Strauss was considered "the father of modern anthropology." Beacon Press published English-language translations of two of his books: The Elementary Structures of Kinship (from... Read more →

While Maine's marriage equality supporters regroup after last Tuesday's defeat, the staff at Connecticut's marriage equality advocacy group Love Makes a Family prepares to douse their lights forever. Read more →

"You won't see my speech on the evening news, though I believe that it was a far more accurate reflection of the tradition of Islam than the story that you saw looped on every channel, and headlined in print this morning." Read more →

Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, still resonates with readers of all ages ten years after it was first published. Read more →

The United States Supreme Court will consider two cases affecting the lives of juveniles serving life sentences without parole; David Chura looks at why these kids deserve the chance to be rehabilitated. Read more →