December 2012
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Seinfeld on How to Tell a Joke
From our senior editor Trent Gilliss’ Tumblr: “In my world, the wronger something feels the righter it is. So too waste this much time on something this stupid… that felt good to me. “ A superb five-minute short on how Jerry Seinfeld writes a joke from The New York Times. Seinfeld’s take on wasting time might just be the polar opposite advice given by Jon Kabat-Zinn in our...
Dec 28th
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Will Teilhard de Chardin Be Fully Embraced by the... →
From our senior editor Trent Gilliss’ Tumblr: I moderate the comments for the weekly shows at On Being for many reasons: staying in touch with our listeners’ responses and a lack of human resources for online work, to name two. In response to our one-hour production on French Jesuit theologian and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, we received this comment from “Father Robert I…”this past...
Dec 27th
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“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we...”
– —Daniel Goleman, from Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (via trentgilliss)
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“I think that slogan has been meant to serve and I think is serving a very...”
– —Steve Biko, from his book I Write What I Like Steve Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement as a student leader. He was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 70s, and became a martyr for the movement after dying in police custody in 1977. Archbishop emeritus Desmond...
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Anonymous asked: What is the music played behind Tom Wait's poetry reading recently posted? Thank you. Jeanne Cronin, Cambridge MA
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Turning To Instead of Against Each Other
by Gloria Lowe, guest contributor We live in difficult times. Stories of corruption, violence and down right evilness surround us. Trying to make sense of this state, it sometimes seems easier to close it all out, becoming numb to our pain and the pain of others. Often we pretend things will somehow get better tomorrow. Many of us come to this holiday season with fear. What do we say to our...
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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“For me, beauty is valued more than anything — the beauty that is manifest in a...”
– ~Oscar Niemeyer, who died yesterday at the age of 104 (via trentgilliss)
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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“Spiritual realization is relatively easy compared with the much greater...”
– ~John Welwood, “The Psychology of Awakening” Word. It’s so very difficult but the journey is the joy, even as I fail. Repeatedly, which can be painful as all get-up. (via trentgilliss)
Dec 3rd
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Is Black Theology Finding New Roots in Christian... →
trentgilliss: Jonathan Tran has written a thought-provoking article for The Christian Century titled “The New Black Theology.” For those of us not theologically trained or current in the art, this piece may seem too heavy-duty and inaccessible. But, there are some fresh ideas in her that are so thoroughly intriguing that you should read just to be aware. In the past five years, three...
Dec 1st
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