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Renewable Hope By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Literary Wisdom Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. -- Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist Teacher Wisdom Trust …
Praying for Endangered Species By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Photo Credit: Barbary Ape by Alexas_Fotos, courtesy of Pixabay In The Week, August 30, 2019, we learn that according to the United Nations up to one million species face extinction. The Trump Adm…
Moments of Democracy By Jay McDaniel Blog Post I’m not sure about the future of democracy, but I do believe in moments of democracy. A moment of democracy may last only for five seconds, but its memory lingers in our imaginations for many w…
Bhutan's Model of Gross National Happiness By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article written for the National Catholic Reporter, Joan Chittister recalls seeing a road sign when she was in Bhutan in June. It said: "Start early / Drive slowly / Arrive safely." She immedi…
An Internet Sabbath By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Here's something to think about. Could you stay offline for a day – perhaps by taking an Internet Sabbath? Could you still do your job? Would your family and friends worry about you? How would you…
Moving Toward Justice By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Mystical Wisdom The call to mystical openness is echoed across millennia of humanity's wisdom; it is the call to discover the unitary point of view that holds the promise of a more just and pea…
What We Think after 2017 By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post In its December 22 - December 29, 2017 print issue, The Week sums up the odd mixture of trends, events, and cultural phenomena of the last year as seen through a potpourri of polls. Here are some of…
Hearts Across the Divide By Guest Contributor Blog Post This post has been contributed by Susan Strouse, a retired Lutheran minister who is author of The INTRAfaith Conversation and an organizer of an initiative called Hearts Across the Divide: Reclaimin…
A Tiny Prayer for Ukraine By Micah Bucey Blog Post In a pre-dawn televised address on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine as Russian forces invaded the country from Russia and Belarus in the east and north and…
A Prayer for Peace and Justice By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Hope for the World, we pray that you might break the chains of hatred, prejudice, and fear that keep people enslaved to the violence that almost destroyed the United States during the Civil War and …

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