As we continue to track the trajectory of this summer's Religious Education course on "Miracles," this week we will consider the phenomenon of transformation from many perspectives. Our main speaker will be Laura Herman, who will consider how this might be a time for transformation in the United States. In humans affairs, it's often a crisis that leads to improvements to government and economic policy; and right now we are in three crises: a governing leadership of debatable efficacy, an inadequate health-care system in the midst of an epidemic, and an historically high unemployment in a severe economic downturn.