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...
by Mark Beckwith | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last night Braver Faith, a “department” of Braver Angels, convened a pre-inauguration event. We had three speakers – a Rabbi, a Southern Baptist Pastor, and the national Braver Angels Ambassador. Surrounding their reflections were prayers offered by Christian,...
