What is joy in a climate of injustice?  How should we think about Kamala Harris’s politics of joy?   First, it is a radical contrast from...

Central to the development of a climate of Justice is the discernment that we are all equal in different ways. In a sense, only when we...

Perhaps it was an accident. Evolution simply did not know when to stop. The planet appears to have been fine without us. There were...

If we start with my basic premise that our colonial beginnings created a climate of injustice that has never been adequately corrected,...

It’s becoming clearer than ever that allowing God to enter the civic realm is causing a lot of trouble. The separation of church and...

When people commit crimes against humanity, do they lose their own humanity? The notion of “Our Humanity” played a central role in A...

We won’t change our social climate to a climate of justice without changing our language. Words matter. If you question that, what would...

The “glory,” of course, is a baby’s birth. In her book The Human Condition, (1958) the philosopher Hannah Arendt defines human birth or...

If you are a true believer, or maybe even a person with a lively imagination, it’s not that hard to think that the fires, floods, and...

In Richard Powers’ novel, The Overstory , the character, Patricia, standing in front of a grove of trees, expresses her gratitude for the...