July 2012
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“For the founders and for all spiritual teachers — and by ‘founders,’...”
– —Jacob Needleman, on conscience in “The Inward Word of Democracy”
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“I’m waiting for the story that transcends the flat ethnicity paradigm and gets...”
– Joanna Brooks, from her Religion Dispatches’s piece, “Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?”
Is she describing the disconnect between the spaces in which we live and the way we’ve publicly lived religion since the 60’s?
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“A democratic citizen is not a citizen who can do anything he wants. It’s a...”
– —Jacob Needleman, from “The Inward Word of Democracy”
June 2012
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“Individualism and individuality have to be separated. Individualism can take a...”
– —Jacob Needleman, from the On Being show “The Inward Word of Democracy”
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“To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that...”
– Jean Vanier, as quoted by Hannah Kinsley in “Living Life Abundantly at L’Arche Ireland”
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“Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or...”
– —E.O. Wilson, from his New York Times Opinionator post “Evolution and Our Inner Conflict”
Definitely worth a read, especially if you have never heard of the competing theories of kin selection and multilevel selection being battled out by evolutionary biologists.
~Trent Gilliss, senior...
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“Serpent handlers, like other Christians, have chosen something to emphasize....”
– —Seth Perry, excerpted from his commentary “Adiaphora and the Dark Extremes of an Eccentric Faith”
How do we respect the depth of a Christian snake handler’s faith — and talk about it without caricaturing or lauding his life?
