Social Change
How Important is Truth?- Matthew Fox

How Important is Truth?- Matthew Fox

To grasp what is happening in America at this time, it might be good to first meditate on Truth. For many, Truth is another name for God. In my recent book on Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God…Including the Unnameable God, Truth is one of...

Noah and the Pandemic: A Survivor’s Transformation- Ed Tick

Noah and the Pandemic: A Survivor’s Transformation- Ed Tick

Whether by flood, fire or ice, a cataclysm that destroys life on earth and cleanses the planet for a new cycle of rebirth is a nearly universal motif found in world spiritual and mythological literature. It occurs in ancient Native American, Sumerian, Greek, Hindu,...

The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter- Sandor Katz

The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter- Sandor Katz

For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.   Sandor Katz is a fervent devotee of fermentation. “In my home...

Survey Reveals Children Coped Well with School Closure – Peter Gray

Survey Reveals Children Coped Well with School Closure – Peter Gray

Without school, children exhibited increased independence and responsibility.When COVID-19 resulted in closures of schools and after-school activities for children, beginning generally in early March of this year, there were some dire predictions about the effects...

Say This Isn’t The End: A Poem for Sunday – Richard Blanco

Say This Isn’t The End: A Poem for Sunday – Richard Blanco

... say we live on, say we’ll forget the masks that kept us from dying from the invisible, but say we won’t ever forget the invisible masks we realized we had been wearing most our lives, disguising ourselves from each other. Say we won’t veil ourselves again, that...

Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence- An Interview with Resmaa Menakem

Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence- An Interview with Resmaa Menakem

The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.”...