by Mark Beckwith | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Years ago, my father called to tell me that one of my younger sisters had just moved in with a man she was dating, while she took a year off from college to live in Wyoming. Expecting me to share his disdain for this development, I asked, “what is his name?” That...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Later this week I will be inaugurating a bi-monthly podcast, entitled “Reconciliation Roundtable”. Reconciliation Roundtable will feature conversations with leaders who not only demonstrate a commitment to reconciliation, but whose life stories demonstrate a journey...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Functional Atheism is a term I first heard about thirty years ago from writer and conference leader Parker Palmer. He described a functional atheist as someone who says they believe in God but lives as though God doesn’t exist. I have held on to the term for these...
by Mark Beckwith | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
It seems that an agreement has been reached to raise the debt ceiling, so as to avoid default. After months of dire predictions, weeks of preening by pundits and politicians, and several days of round the clock negotiating, a deal has been achieved, which now...
by Mark Beckwith | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last week I was in Washington DC with a group of bishops, clergy and laypeople to witness and strategize about our work in gun violence prevention (referred to as GVP). Organized by Bishops United Against Gun Violence, which I helped form after the Newtown,...
by Mark Beckwith | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Freedom. The bedrock of the American experiment. It is protected in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791: freedom to exercise one’s religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of the right to petition the...
