Ordained Interfaith / Interspiritual Minister (nondenominational) and Transformative Peacebuilder
Recently, I woke up in the middle of the night and felt stabs of existential terror, that I was no longer safe in my own country, the United States. It had been a couple of weeks since Trump was inaugurated and began exercising raw overwhelming power that no one seems...
From my Ukrainian friend: Please donate to provide humanitarian aide to the people of Ukraine. One good organization to support, among many, is “Nova Ukraine” Go to www.novaukraine.org Today we continue to mourn the suffering, death and destruction...
The key to beginning to bridge the huge social and political divides that the election results brought out so starkly is to engage and build relationships with each other rather than continue to attack and defeat each other. To do that, it is essential that we first...
“I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. … When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but receive them. … Listen to...
This past Sunday a colleague and I facilitated a post-election gathering for over 2 hours at my local Unitarian Universalist Church, near Hartland Vermont, to talk about what’s going on for each of us in the aftermath of the presidential election and to look at some...
Vaclav Havel - the Czech poet, activist, and former President - once wrote, “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope is not a prognostication – it’s an orientation of the spirit. Hope… is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest...