Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats

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  • Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats

    The dark fascination with the last moments of the Titanic often comes home on the issue of too few life boats available and too many people in the fatally dark waters.  We tend to follow the movie storyline to the… Continue reading

  • Good, Unforgiving MAGA, and a New Kind of Inhumanity

    The news service article was a throw away; something about the boos for Taylor Swift at the latest Super Bowl. But then the new president of our nation is quoted as having made a very low-end comment saying the boos… Continue reading

  • Good, Sanctuary, and the Next Subtle Sacrilege

    The idea of Sanctuary in churches goes back deep into the history of western civilization. Much can be said, but essentially there was a consensus agreement that armed civil authority would not enter sacred space without the consent of keepers… Continue reading

  • Good, Rev Martin Luther King, and the Vocation of ‘Unenforceable Obligations’

    “I’ve been to the mountaintop And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.” … Continue reading

  • Good Violence and Winning the Revolution

    Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished… Continue reading

  • Good, Death and Dying

    I will break the political trance of this Project for a moment in a commitment to highlighting courageous writing that dares to approach something resembling the truth. Truth, after all, was the first and last victim of this last couple… Continue reading

  • Good, Suffering, and the Reconstruction of a Culture

    This nation of the United States appears to this writer to have a medical system that leads in the world in reducing the experience of physical pain.  The tragic irony is the United States just might also be a world… Continue reading

  • Good, Lies, Connection and Crime

    This project tries to help people ground their decisions in the truth starting with discerning one’s own truth.  Good decisions rely on truth.  A fact alone is not a truth and sadly lies often contain facts.  In some ways, the… Continue reading

  • Good, Grief, Covenant and the New American Binary

    For most of our history as a nation”winner-take-all’ didn’t define the American election process. The election was more of a “winner-take-leadership” sort of contest. The prevailing candidate was put in charge of juggling the balance of power.  Above all, the… Continue reading

  • Good, Despair, and Broken Narratives

    There is no lack of opportunity to feel anger and despair. We live in a time where such emotions thrive. The rage of this historic moment spreads like mold, first sticking and disarming the very words we need to find… Continue reading