by Mark Beckwith | Mar 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
This Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, I am hosting an hour-long noon vigil at a prominent intersection in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Several people have said they will join me. We will be holding two signs: one that says, “What does the Lord require of you?” and the other,...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Like it or not, we are beholden to the production/consumption system. Some years ago I read that Americans receive something on the order of a thousand messages a day, from some electronic device, enticing us to purchase certain medications, buy this car, fly to this...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Truth is for sale. As directives and orders and policy statements continue to rain down on the country – and indeed across the ocean to Europe and beyond — the thread that emerges is that truth is a commodity that gets bought, sold and traded in the...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
It was one church. Sort of. For seven hundred years, from the early 300s until 1054, there was essentially one Christian church — with two centers. The Western center was in Rome and the Eastern center was in Constantinople, named after Constantine, the first...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.” So wrote Sufi poet Rumi, a Persian who lived from 1207-1273. His well-remembered words have framed the desire that many have had since to move beyond the limitations of...
by Mark Beckwith | Jan 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two days ago I was in Soweto, a township of two million people located just outside of Johannesburg. For decades Soweto was seen as the epicenter of anguish during the years of Apartheid, from 1948 to 1994. Thousands of people were forcefully removed from rural...
