Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've ever gone to, I've also seen people being extraordinary in a good sense. It's not just a black and white extreme situation that pushes people to extremes and they do crazy bad stuff. You also see crazy brave stuff. You see humanity in a different light.
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.