It began when I married my wife, Mari Sorri, back in 1982. A couple of years later we visited her family farm. Since then I have visited Finland 29 times!! The home is located in the tiny village of Topeno, of about 100 people and two yield signs and about 100 miles north of Helsinki.…

Over the years my approach to ethical decision making has been primarily guided by the thinking of H. Richard Niebuhr in his book The Responsible Self. Here’s a quick summary of his thinking. Niebuhr begins by analyzing the term ‘responsibility.’ At its core it entails the notion of response. That is, our efforts to be…