The grave danger is to disown our neighbors. When we do so, we deny their humanity and our own without realizing it. — Pope Francis Immigration seems like a big fat litmus test. At the root of that test is the way immigration brings us face to face with “the other”...
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” ― Theodore Parker It seems a long arc indeed, this movement toward peace and justice. I imagine it very much like a river flowing toward the sea, with varying strength but persistent, inexorable....
I said to my heart, show me the way now. Help me to know what is mine to do amidst the great catastrophe — the death, suffering and ignorance that’s so much bigger than the latest war. Give me clarity and courage. Help me to see love and beauty amidst the destruction...
Denali was a spiritual teacher and friend (now crossed over) whose teaching was all about truth, love, and innocence. This was his Holy Trinity and Innocence was the union of masculine and feminine and the very essence of being. As soon as I first heard that emphasis...
Part of the inspiration for this post is a recent CNN special report about the migration of people from South America through the treacherous Darién Gap at the Columbia/Panama border. It seems that nearly all of them are making their way to the U.S. border. It’s a...
To the tune of Mr. Roger’s theme song: It’s a paradoxical day in the neighborhood, a paradoxical day in this neighborhood, the weather is fair but wounds are laid bare the leaves are pretty, some scrunchy, some quaking, but bullies and violence leave the whole world...
