What the World Needs Now

Burt Bacharach declared it was what the world needed now. The Beatles said it was all you needed. Elton John asked if you could feel it tonight. And Foreigner wanted to know what it was. Turns out Hugh Grant was right: love actually is all around us. Love comes in many different forms, shapes and [...]

Can We Really?

Three years ago, around 11pm Eastern time, the news went out around the world that Barack Obama had won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and had become the first African-American president of this country. Three years later… Obama is still president, gearing up for his 2012 re-election campaign – a campaign that might have seemed [...]

The Kindness of Ordinary People

Sometimes, the world can seem like a cynical place, with everyone out for themselves. Someone cuts you off in traffic or takes your spot in line after you’ve been waiting forever. Each night, the news is filled with the bad stories, the robberies, the deaths, the threats to your well-being. We almost never hear about [...]