Ellen Kolb

Listen to “Hush”

In the documentary “Hush”, a pro-choice director looks at abortion’s effect on women’s health.

Open Book: Betty Smith and Rumer Godden

A roundup of what’s been on the bookshelf lately.

The risk of being more like Mother Teresa

I saw the statue of Mother Teresa during a visit to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. A pleasing and apt tribute, but a little unsatisfying, and it took me a minute to figure out why: the image is fixed and still, while its subject was so oftenContinue reading “The risk of being more like Mother Teresa”