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We have praised the people of Minneapolis and the marching Buddhist monks for standing up for democracy and diversity in opposition to attacks on DEI
I am sharing my eulogy that I began in yesterday’s DM at Joel Primack’s Celebration of Life event. Geologian Thomas Berry used to say, “We
This Saturday, I was part of a Celebration of Life gathering held at the UCC Peace Church in Santa Cruz, California. There, we remembered the
We have been discussing saintliness or holiness of late, as a counter measure to the smallness and hatred and pettiness and retribution that marks a
We meditated in yesterday’s DM on challenging “large-scale social lies” (Becker’s words) through naming them, which is journalism’s task. And indeed, a task for all
We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news
Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that.
We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing
We continue our exegesis of Leonard Cohen’s observations on saintliness. The saint is grounded and earthy and following the contours of the earth—not angel-like and
We are meditating on what Leonard Cohen says about saintliness, in his book Beautiful Losers.* Saturday’s DM ended with his observation that Love is at
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