Sacrifice is a universal experience.  We would say it is archetypal, meaning it is one of the patterns of behavior we human beings are subject to.  The root words for sacrifice mean "to make sacred," which prompts me to ask just what is it that is made sacred?  And what does it mean that something is made sacred?  In our modern world sacrifice is one of those experiences, like death, that we don't like to encounter, yet it is a reality of ... [More]