by Mark Beckwith | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
As our airwaves and platforms are saturated with requests, threats and predictions over the upcoming midterm elections, the unrelenting messaging machines generate visceral reactions, to be sure, but also – maybe, some personal reflection, if not introspection. What...
by Mark Beckwith | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our lives are framed by stories. Stories that we read, hear and see; and stories that we tell – about what we know, what we see, and what we feel. Yet increasingly over the last several years stories have come under intense scrutiny. In more and more cases, stories...
by Mark Beckwith | Sep 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
When religion ventures out of its traditional worship space, controversy inevitably ensues. We have seen that recently in Iran where the morality (read religious) police arrested 22 year old Mahsa Amini because her hair was not properly hidden under her hijab. She...
by Mark Beckwith | Sep 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Immigration in America is a continuing cascade of failure. It could be said that the failure begins in the growing number of countries that are failed states — due to economic collapse, corruption, violence, or financial and physical disinvestment, or a combination of...
by Mark Beckwith | Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
I teared up several times as I watched the parade of mourners lay flowers at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace in honor and memory of Queen Elizabeth. Pundits and British citizens reflected on her devotion, duty and duration as monarch. She was the model of...
by Mark Beckwith | Sep 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Hate Has No Home Here lawn signs across the American landscape. Similar to blatantly political lawn signs (many make the case that Hate Has No Home Here is indeed a subliminal political message), they reflect the...
