
Beauty, Politics and Justice: From Gandhi to bell hooks and more
The awakening to beauty and awakening to justice often go together. After all, what is more ugly than injustice? The injustice being perpetrated in Uganda,
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The awakening to beauty and awakening to justice often go together. After all, what is more ugly than injustice? The injustice being perpetrated in Uganda,
Cultural critic bell hooks is in agreement with Aquinas who, as we saw yesterday, says that truth and justice lie in the heart. hooks tells us
Two days ago, bell hooks, a powerful voice for years of intelligent inquiry, the search for truth and wisdom, justice, creativity and beauty, died. She
Aquinas tells us that the prophet Isaiah talks about two things— Justice, which he possesses, and a vision of God. And they follow one upon another. For
May 29, 2023. Memorial Day 2023: From Self-Hatred to Self-Love & Spreading LoveOtto Rank’s Rank’s profound insight that pessimism is born of self-hatred gives us
Addressing the avalanche of lies that pass for news on a certain cable news station recently, we have invoked the centrality of the search for
February 27, 2023. Jesus on Truth, Passion, and Speaking Truth to PowerIn this meditation, Matthew addresses a reader who thought that “calling people bad names”
In responding to a current trial against a prominent news agency that traffics in lies, we have called on mystics like Teresa of Avila, Jesus,
Yesterday we meditated on Gandhi’s warning about character building and truth telling and its importance for the very survival of human society. This seems especially
We continue our meditations on the crisis of the masculine in our times, a crisis that is thousands of years old and that Mother Earth
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