Many today are aware of the privileges patriarchy affords men and the harm it subjects women to. What is less recognized is the existential price men pay for their privilege, from lower life-expectancy to higher rates of suicide, incarceration, and workplace deaths. The “man box” forged of stereotypes is a...

Reverend Roger Butts, a UU minister and hospital/hospice chaplain, confronts death daily, which means he confronts life daily as well. He’ll tell stories about his life and ministry with the dead and dying, and the alive and living.

According to Boswell’s biography of him, Samuel Johnson quipped, on the occasion of a friend remarrying after a very unhappy marriage, that it was a sign of the triumph of hope over experience. But really, what is the alternative? Søren Kierkegaard decided to remain unmarried, as he viewed the possibility...