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When you arrive early to the classroom Sit down get settled Turn off your cell phone put it away Take refuge in conscious breathing: “Breathing in, I am calm. Breathing out, I smile.” Look with…
When you arrive early to the classroom Sit down get settled Turn off your cell phone put it away Take refuge in conscious breathing: “Breathing in, I am calm. Breathing out, I smile.” Look with…
Dear Abbie and Liz, Given your love for theology, I thought I’d share the following reflections on someone you should at least be acquainted with. His name is Helder Camara, former archbishop of Recife, Brazil…
Bartolomé de las Casas Woke up Daniel Ellsberg Woke up Oscar Romero Woke up Bella Levenshteyn How shall we wake up? –from novel-in-progress, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris
Thomas Merton is perhaps the single most important American Catholic writer of the 20th century, and his writings continue to remain startlingly relevant today. In this course, we will read and discuss a broad sample…
As an example of bourgeois mentality: some aunts of his wife (otherwise excellent ladies) when the Revolution began to nationalize the private clubs, came home telling about the countless indignities that they had to endure…
From July 2013 to August 2014, Chelsea Jaeger was a volunteer in the Rostro de Cristo program, living in intentional community with six other volunteers near Guayaquil, Ecuador. As a group and as individuals, they…
Our friends organized a potluck dinner A small gathering to welcome back Rebecca Who’d been in Uganda for ten months Doing therapy and social work With scores of people Who had survived the civil war (In…
Gassho is the Japanese equivalent of the Sanskrit Anjali. It is the greeting, palm to palm, found among people throughout Asia, from the Dalai Lama to the Singhalese peasant, from the Pakistani weaver to the…
In the days ahead, everyone who loves this country enough to change it will have many opportunities both to reflect on and to practice the radical revolution in values that [Martin Luther] King projected and…
I am delighted that my friend Courtney Barrett will do our next Share the Wealth on how and why she got into Tae Kwon Do in her early 30s (she recently received her black belt)….