Episodes/2 (How to Sleep at Night)
During Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Diaspora moralist Elie Wiesel was of the opinion That given the dramatic sweep of thousands of years of Jewish history What was then taking place— The bombing of…
Episodes/1 (The Prophetic)
To us a single act of injustice (Cheating in business, exploitation of the poor) Is slight To the prophets A disaster To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people To the prophets…
Children of Vietnam
On Betty Lifton and Tom Fox, Children of Vietnam, 1972 The writer of children’s stories and a former IVS volunteer and journalist had to do something. So they compiled this Mev Puleo-ish book of stories and…
I Badgered and Pestered Rumi To See a Page of His Favorite Writing Notebook and He Finally Relented and Showed Me How Each Page of All Three Hundred Looked More or Less Just Like This—
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Share the Wealth with Jane Gramlich: The Role of People Raised “White” in Ending Racism
Hello my dear brothers and sisters! I hope you will join us Sunday to further our understanding of racism, how it has impacted our relationship to self, our relationships with other folks raised white, as well as…
The Right to Remember
“The right to remember is not among the human rights consecrated by the United Nations, but now more than ever we must insist on it and act on it. Not to repeat the past but…
Share the Wealth Sunday 19 April: How I Became a Poet by Maggie Needham
Hello all! In honor of National Poetry Month, I’d love to share with you the story of how I realized I was a poet and why I love spoken word so much. I’ll perform some…
Presence
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was the first person I ever met for whom I felt immediate and total trust. It was something which I had never expected to experience. Every sense, every brain cell and nerve…
Just Received a Book in Today’s Mail…
And opened to a random page which was “xi” of Arundhati Roy’s foreword to the re-issue of Noam Chomsky’s For Reasons of State She writes: Perhaps this belief in its own divinity also explains why…
Modern Crucifixion in Central America
Every day during the years of conflict in Central America, tortured bodies were found along roadsides—as in Jesus’ day the crucified victims of the Roman Empire were displayed on the side of the road—to instill…