Barbara KingsolverA collection of 17 posts

War

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to ...

Truth

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed but truth moves to the heart as sl...

Truth

Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.

Strength

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Society

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society what we owe to o...

Society

Terms like that 'Humane Society ' are devised with people like me in ...

Science

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the pred...

Religion

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on...

Life

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The...

Hope

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think wha...