The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

- Roland Merullo

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

- Roland Merullo

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

- Roland Merullo

Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and s…

- Roland Merullo

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be n…

- Roland Merullo

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disa…

- Roland Merullo

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

- Roland Merullo