A few days ago I decided to listen to the legal presentation of the issues regarding what is a fair treatment of transgender women in women’s sports during Supreme Court deliberations. I was looking for the ethical arguments as well as the legal arguments regarding this issue. I have already written a blog on the issue of transgender rights and limitations. One of the basic legal/ethical issues that was referred to more than anything else is the Title IX Education Act signed

James “Jay” Lackey Crawford, Jr. Born September 14, 1938 Born to Eternal Life January 3, 2026 Former Head of the Episcopal Academy                        Well-Worn Stories Give me times with well-worn stories, Childhood, work with long-gone glories. Family, friends sitting ‘round to laugh and swap, Hoping that they’ll never stop.   Once in awhile there’s an addition, Fresh, new growth to the tradition. Time will tell if it will stick, Tellers talent does that trick.   Well-wo

First consider Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote in his book, Blink, that seeing a perspective on something where you are making a quick decision is perfected by the art of “thin slicing.” It  is a way to filter out the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables. Gladwell’s book begins with an example that is too common in the news. It is the killing of Amadou Diallo by four New York City Police officers. The officers saw the victim standing in the vesti

Photo of Meredith Rainey in "Movements" by George Balanchine                                Recently Vicki and I attended a Ballet X performance in the theatre at Bryn Mawr College. Before going I was talking with my son in law, Meredith Rainey, about the upcoming ballet as he had seen it the night before. I asked him, “How was it?” He commented on the pieces and indicated that I should look for the movement vocabulary in the various pieces. I told him that improvement vocabu

I am grateful to all of you who have gone to my website. The website has two parts, the blog and an innovative program that I devised called Lever Therapy. I started writing the blog when a friend who reads everything that I write told me I should begin one. I didn’t get around to it. But after reading my books, The Times of my Life , and This Too Shall Pass , he told me that it would help people. I try to apply the same standard to myself that I required of people who asked

One of the many controversial issues coming out of the Trump Administration is the firing of known doctors and scientists who guided our vaccine programs in our nation. After Kennedy indicated in his interview that he would not change vaccine policy, he brought in a group of anti-vaccine professionals who have now changed our vaccine policy in harmful ways that are not supported by scientific data. He has put our nation at risk. For the first time in our history measles are m

One of the great ethical debates has been unfolding before our eyes. It was the bombing of a suspected boat thought to be carrying drugs which was destroyed by our military. First, Trump said he would release the footage taken of the strike including the two men who were killed in a second strike. Were they innocent survivors or was it a war crime? If it was a war crime, then someone should be held accountable. The possibilities are murder, a war crime or an event that was un

If you are a football fan, you know that the sports world is scratching their heads after Notre Dame was passed over for Alabama and Miami in the slot for competing for the football national championship. The explanation is convoluted and beyond what I and others could understand. Notre Dame indicated they wouldn’t play in any bowls. Notre Dame is not a spoiled sport as others have indicated. What everyone is worried about is will other teams do the same thing because money i

Photo by Lelise Cross                                                                                         Today I met with a good friend, Rich Merriman, who is a terrific leader who founded the Pennsylvania Trust that is now Fidelity Trust International. I have written before about always asking people who I feel have been great leaders to ask them about the key to their leadership. For Rich I have always noticed that he is the embodiment of integrity and ethics. Rich sha

I tend to write when I see connections. Call it the work of the spirit. As we begin the season of Advent we should focus on being prepared for the birth of Jesus. But how are we preparing? When will we feel that we have done enough preparation? In the last twenty-four hours, we have been told that Americans have spent 11.8 billion on Black Friday sales and 14.2 billion on on-online sales. Lane Kiffen, Coach of the Mississippi Football Team, whose team is going to the playoffs

The day after watching the movie, Nuremberg , the chronicle of the events leading up to and including the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi war crimes, I started reading Nobody’s Girl , a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. It is her autobiography of her sexual abuse from her early years through the time she is trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. Both experiences document the cruelty of what human beings can do to one another. It is a cautiona

Photo by Vlada A few nights ago, I saw the movie, Nuremberg. It is a movie that depicts the events leading up to the trial of Nazi war criminals and what occurred at the trial itself. At the same time, I am reading an article sent to me written by one of my psychologist colleagues who is Lithuanian regarding how the people in that country killed Jews and covered it up by indicating that they really weren’t fighting the Nazis but directed their military against the Russian inv