As a former rule-follower, the author knows what it's like to realize doing the "right" things may not actually matter ...

To the world: we see your silence. We hear your lies. We feel your betrayal. But know this: we will not disappear. We have been through Babylon, Rome, Auschwitz, and Hamas. We have survived ...

As I walked through the city, someone handed me a flyer for exactly what I had been looking for: a free Christmas carol concert. I had no idea it was organized by a Baptist church.

This, of course, is not the first time my father has prodded me to write about something. Each one has evoked complex feelings that can only come from a parent-child relationship.