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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.
Post Election Reflection: A Celebration of Diversity
At first the evidence seemed overwhelming. Dozens of districts were redrawn, gerrymandered for the purpose of guaranteeing Republicans voting supremacy. Floods of money poured into those same districts with the intent of defeating Democrats by discrediting them....
Words that Stand Up to Fear
What worries me more about the outcome of the midterm elections is the disturbing, if not disgusting, nature of the campaigns themselves. Politics has always been a nasty business. Each year when we face elections with a national focus, we find ourselves in the...
A Campaign Ad That Crosses Several Lines
Most of us feel besieged by a blizzard of appeals and threats that tell us how to vote. We can’t seem to escape them. These messages come through our phones, appear on our various screens, and show up in our mailboxes. So many of these campaign come-ons are carefully...
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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