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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.
The Many Facets of Exile
I didn’t intend for it to be a self-imposed exile, but in some ways that is how it turned out. When I graduated from college in 1973 I lived in Kyoto, Japan for two years on a fellowship that involved teaching and being the resident Fellow in a university dormitory....
Out of Many, One
On Sunday evening, July 6, the Braver Faith team of Braver Angels hosted a webinar entitled "Faith and Freedom Through Reflection and Prayer." The event was scheduled to honor the Fourth of July weekend. A link to the 75 minute webinar can be found here.a link It...
Faith and Freedom: Preparing for July 4
Many years ago I took my family to the July 4th festivities at Old Sturbridge Village, an historical replica of a colonial town in central Massachusetts. The highlight of the day was the reading of the Declaration of Independence from a podium on the town common. A...
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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