The Butterfly Effect
Exploring how limiting the term “Pro-Life” to describe only human life is having devastating consequences to all life on our planet.
Exploring how limiting the term “Pro-Life” to describe only human life is having devastating consequences to all life on our planet.
On the anniversary of Sophia Lyon Fahs’ death we contemplate her gift of teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.
Oscar Wilde wrote, “Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”
How to remain hopeful when we find ourselves overwhelmed by the weight of suffering in the world.
Moral injury and the journey back to compassion.
Sometimes our dreams to change the world change our hearts too.
Elijah Anderson writes, “Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites, though their reception has been mixed. Overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public spaces remain. Black … read more.
Donella Meadows said, “No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them … read more.
Is there a better example of liberating love than that which welcomes differing beliefs into a set of principles that transform us into justice seeking people?
Love has broader implications than just determining how we behave in our individual relationships; love is a belief that all people deserve freedom from oppression.
In the hushed mystery of Christmas Eve we await the birth of a world at peace.