Earlier this month I was invited to speak at two different Rotary Clubs here in SCV. I greatly admire the foundational aspect of service to our community upon...
Author - David W. Hegg
In my June 9 column I was honored to participate in the celebration of a distinguished Los Angeles Police Department officer at her retirement banquet...
Forgiveness has fallen on hard times. And like all of virtue’s children, forgiveness is something we are much more apt to expect than extend. But the problem...
In his monumental work A Secular Age, Charles Taylor explores the shift in society from what he calls the “porous self” to the “buffered self.” No, he’s not...
Earlier this week I arrived home from two weeks in Israel. It was an exciting time as the new US Embassy opened, and we celebrated the 70th anniversary of...
As an ardent observer of our society, I have recently come to see that one of the greatest challenges presented to us in the last few decades has been the...
Okay, I’m confused. When did truth become a modern-day amoeba-like concept? When did the definition of truth lose its moorings, and drift into an amorphous...
Winston Churchill is credited with reminding the world “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” History, being in many ways the succinct...
Have you even noticed that, with all the surprises and unpredictable intrusions life throws at us, what we find most tiring are the very predictable ways our...
As graduation season comes into view, I have some advice for those who are entering a new phase of life called adulthood. The advice is good for the rest of us...
