by Mark Beckwith | Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
They came into the city through separate gates, almost at the same time. The first was a procession that demonstrated power: Pontius Pilate’s power, backed by all the forces of the Roman Empire. The second procession was smaller, feeble by comparison, and it...
by Mark Beckwith | Apr 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Personal racism has gone down”, a wise colleague told me recently, “but institutional racism has gone up.” This is both good and bad news.The good news is that over the decades of my lifetime more and more people have become increasingly sensitive to the issues of...
by Mark Beckwith | Apr 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
“The secret to white privilege is that if you don’t want to hear something, you don’t have to,” my mentor Ed Rodman said in a video retrospective: “A Prophet Among Us”...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
I was about six strokes from the finish of a 100 yard butterfly race in an age-group competition this past weekend when my arms gave out. The last two strokes looked like I was drowning. I could barely get my arms out of the water. Fifty-five years ago I was a...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Where’s the empathy? As yet another message, order, and policy change comes blasting out of the White House, accompanied by fraudulent statements and outright lies, I keep asking – and many of us are wondering — where is the empathy for those who have been...
by Mark Beckwith | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
How can we say yes when we are pummeled with so many nos? No to immigration, no to Ukraine, no to federal workers, no to climate care, no to the teaching of racial history, no to trans people, no to anything that has to do with DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). ...
