We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so...
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its...
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch...
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use...
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want...
I usually write away from home in coffee shops on trains on planes in...
Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been...
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny...
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat...
Food is not rational. Food is culture habit craving and identity.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad...
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all...
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who...
We need a better way to talk about eating animals a way that doesn't ignore...
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your...
God will never direct us to be prideful arrogant and unforgiving immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.