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There are forces and voices in our increasingly polarized world that want us to view the issues of the day in a binary way: this or that; good or bad. Most issues are more complicated. This blog seeks to invite people to journey beyond the safety, if not the rigidity, of our silo and our ego – to the soul; where we have the opportunity to see things differently.
Responsibility to Protect. R2P. Responsibility to Protect a doctrine that was endorsed by all UN member states at the 2005 World Summit. After the genocide in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, there was a developing global commitment to require nations to...
Bombing of Iran: Prayerful and Action Responses
Bombs fell across Iran over the weekend. The assault continues. The impact of these attacks have been felt across the globe. Loss of life, and military machinery in Iran itself, and an array of anxiety, grief, anger, fear, and in some cases celebration, in Iran and...
Building Trust Through Gratitude
“We move at the speed of trust.” So said my friend and colleague Shaykh Ibad Wali who is the Senior Muslim Advisor for the One America Movement. He and other national leaders from faith250 and Braver Faith (a department of Braver Angels) are working together to design...
A bishop and gun safety activist offers a way forward from opposing viewpoints.
Instead of dismissing those whose views and experiences are different from our own, the author argues that we must look directly at them and see the goodness that is inherent in all things. From the language we use to the imperative to understand and include, we have a duty to work through opposition and build community.
Bishop Beckwith describes it this way: “We are trained to think, yet the cultural emphasis on thinking has not be applied to our ability to see . . . We are not as well trained in seeing the world’s fullness―pain and joy, compassion and cruelty. We regularly receive glimpses of pain and joy, but they are often presented in such a way as to reinforce our thinking.”
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