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Death Cafes By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Statisticians put the number of people who die each year at 56 million. That comes out to 153, 000 deaths a day, 107 deaths per minute. Death speaks quite loudly to some of us, Erica Brown notes in …
A New Civility Initiative in San Diego By Frederic Brussat Blog Post More than half the people on Earth now live in cities and are becoming more tuned in with the need to share housing, transit, and knowledge. Creative urban leaders are calling for collaboration on s…
Listening Is More Needed Now Than Ever By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article on TheConversation.com, Olaf Werder points out that in today's polarized milieu, dialogue between people has given way to "parallel monologues, paired with an inability to listen." Man…
Book Clubs as Transfusion Centers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article in The New York Times, writer James Atlas points out that there are about 5 million Americans participating in some kind of book club. They meet in living rooms, in local libraries, in…
Disarmed by Social Media By Margaret Wakeley Blog Post Societies depend on dialogue to function well. These days social media allows us to talk more than ever, but often that means declaring our opinions: talking "at" instead of "to" others. This approa…
Walking as a Spiritual Practice By Frederic Brussat Blog Post "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake," Wallace Stevens once said. I'd make that a "walk around the city." I love to walk and have made it a daily part of my spiritual practice. Mary …
Truth, Reconciliation, Democracy By Sheryl Johnson Blog Post The experience of being “unsettled” as a “settler” will stay with me for a long time. During the closing event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015 I participated in …
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 Virtual Living Room Conversation By Sheryl Johnson Blog Post Generally, when I consider online conversations, I think of stark polarization and echo chambers — people harshly judging others across differences or just connecting with those who are similar to…
Civility Brushed Aside By Frederic Brussat Blog Post "America has always harbored virulent strains of coarseness and cruelty and political campaigns are customarily bitter mudslinging affairs," writes Teddy Wayne in an article in The New York Times. H…

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