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The Politics of Reverence By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post "Humiliation is the most underestimated force in politics and international relations. The poverty of dignity explains so much more behavior than the poverty of money. "People will absorb hardshi…
A Prayer for Political Parties By Frederic Brussat Blog Post O God of Diversity, we turn to you with the question: Is it time, as Ralph Nader and others have said many times, for a third political party in the United States to keep the two major parties hones…
A Prayer for More Respect and Civility in Politics By Frederic Brussat Blog Post O God of Peace and Diversity, the American political system is rife with incivility. We know similar situations exist in other political systems around the world. Today, we pray specifically that yo…
How to Avoid Polarization in Sports and Politics By Frederic Brussat Blog Post We don't attend many baseball games but we took some relatives to see a Yankees game. When someone in the crowd yelled in celebration of the opposing team, he was booed down and then pelted with a t…
A Confluence of Time, Culture, Deaths, and Politics By Frederic Brussat Blog Post I have been using black binders to store my writings, reviews, and quotations by others since 1969 when Mary Ann and I started Cultural Information Service, which morphed over the years into Living …
Choices to Make By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Political Wisdom When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. — Shirley Chisholm, American politician, U.S. Representative
Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing By Frederic Brussat Blog Post In an article for the Huffingtonpost.com, Dennis Merritt Jones (Your (Re)Defining Moments) uses this quotation from Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will mee…
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…
Blessed Are the Peacemakers By Frederic Brussat Blog Post
A Workshop for Civility By Frederic Brussat Blog Post The late Vaclav Havel wrote that civility can only come about through the "complex, long-term, and never-ending work involving education and self-education." In this enlightening article from aspen.…

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