by Mark Beckwith | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
It was the spring of 1970. The United States had just announced that it was expanding the war in Vietnam by authorizing bombing campaigns in Cambodia. Campuses across the country erupted in protest. On May 4, four protesting students at Kent State were shot and...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Trust the process. This was a phrase I often heard when a strategy session or a problem-solving meeting bogged down. The group would get stuck, and in frustration someone would either suggest we scrap the whole enterprise, or would start accusing a participant of...
by Mark Beckwith | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
“In war, death interrupts nothing. Time doesn’t stop; it seems to accelerate.” So wrote David French, in a New York Times column on May 25, 2024. A veteran of the Iraq War, French goes on to say that in battle there is no time or space for mourning the loss of a...
by Mark Beckwith | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I came across this passage from my daily reading: “From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates,all the land of the Hittites, to the Great Sea in the west shall be your territory. No one will be able...
by Mark Beckwith | May 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tornados of fear are swirling around the world, many of them invading our psyches. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza, not to mention Sudan and Myanmar; escalating climate change; unrelenting gun violence; immigration crises. To my mind, the storms of fear are particularly...
by Mark Beckwith | May 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
I lived a block away from a campus protest that erupted in November, 1974. I was a teaching fellow at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and the campus was about to be shut down in opposition to Gerald Ford’s visit to the city, the first time an American President...
