by Mark Beckwith | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
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....
by Mark Beckwith | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the last few days the country, if not the world, has had a crash course in bunker buster bombs, ever since three of them literally crashed down on a nuclear weapons development facility in Fordow, Iran. Delivered by a stealth B2 bomber, the pretext, subtext and...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
No permanent allies. No permanent enemies. That was a foundational mantra of a ten day community organizing training that I received nearly 40 years ago. It was a new idea for me, and I struggled with it. Growing up during the height of the cold war, I had been...
