politics
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Good and Congress’s lmpotence in Crisis: A Call for Presence, Help, and Hope
How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break? I suspect you might… Continue reading
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Good, Peace, and Violent Voices Condemning Violent Acts
I once explained to a friend I couldn’t vote for the current president because it struck me he has a warring mind and warring minds beget warring acts. Violence begins with violent minds and violent minds express violence leading to… Continue reading
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Words Better than Mine: Hannah Arendt and Authoritarian Government
Hannah Arendt was a German, Jewish, American, Philosopher, and Historian from the 20th century. Her insights on authoritarian and totalitarian government accurately predicted today’s situation in the United States. If you read nothing else by her, these quotes should get… Continue reading
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Good, Melting Pots, and America as Creativity
A minister in our community recently warned about` the dangers of attempting to render the complex web of American stories into one absolute, value laden, dominant story. Americans are a tapestry of dynamic, powerful stories in interaction with evolving communities… Continue reading
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Good, Globalism and Heart Disease
Certain forms of disregulation in the human body can add up to a heart attack in the human body. No mystery that from the moment the heart stops the entire body begins to break down in a catastrophic hurry. The… Continue reading
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Good, Avoidable death and Affordable life.
It is most unfortunate that when this administration began its budget cuts not many of us had any idea how many lives our taxes in the form of aid were saving in the world and how many lives would be… Continue reading
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Good, leadership and the Chains of Retribution
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we would like to punish we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility. Henry. Wadsworth Longfellow as quoted by Magaret Wheatley in… Continue reading
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Good and Guilt, the Problem with Intention
In France, last week a multinational corporation and its executives have been found guilty and sentenced for supporting terrorist organizations. Even in the Nuremberg trials of WWII it became nearly impossible for the courts to hold corporations responsible for supporting… Continue reading
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Good and the New/Old Amoral Religiosity
This writer finds it curious that some times the most religiously aligned political actors use their political power to suspend the morality of their own religion. Our current President is criticizing and denouncing Catholicism’s leader for speaking out in support… Continue reading
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Good, Extortion, and the Art of the Misdeal
Not everything in life is a deal. When an offer is made and the only real alternative to the dealer’s offer is death and destruction of everything that matters to you, the transaction is called extortion. Extortion, for clarification, is… Continue reading
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