Extra Credit

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…

The Work Is Never Done

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…

Nota Bene

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

The Way of the World

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…

Word of the Day: Gassho

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…

Everyone Just as Precious

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…