On Saturday, July 2, 2016, the world lost Elie Wiesel at the age of 87. Wiesel, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp as a teenager, lost many of his family members during the Holocaust, in which over 6,000,000 Jews and other marginalized members of society were mercilessly annihilated by the Nazi German regime. Wiesel most famously chronicled his plight in his now-classic book Night, orig...
“. . . a time to be silent, and a time to speak . . . ” (Eccl 3:7)
We live in a world that is too frequently noisy, replete with a cacophony of distracting sounds and sights. It is no wonder that we make recourse to the word “loud” to describe an obtrusively bright, flashy color or design, or even the many prominent figures within our culture who surround themselves by a whirlwind of activity an...
