Good, Melting Pots, and America as Creativity

politics

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good and What We Want to be True

    Truth is not what we want it to be, but rather what it is.  In an esoteric discussion of black holes, David Kaiser a professor of physics and science at M.I.T. made an elegant summary of their discussion of science… Continue reading

  • Good, Democracy and Whose War is This?

    Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist for the New York Times and probably a lonely one too. He seems one of the few remaining conservatives who think, feel and strenuously process their way through the days events.  I read him… Continue reading

  • Good, and Deep Joy Beyond Grief’s Long Road; An American Easter Wish

    It could be very easy to let Easter slide by this year without learning or feeling its meaning. In America we have a war, domestic terror for ourselves, our neighbors or both, rising prices, a crumbling democracy, and diminished international… Continue reading