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Today is a complex holiday indeed. One wants to celebrate America’s independence and courage and imagination at launching a great experiment in democracy 258 years ago.
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Today is a complex holiday indeed. One wants to celebrate America’s independence and courage and imagination at launching a great experiment in democracy 258 years ago.

Today’s meditation is an unusual gift from my friend and co-worker in the vineyard of spirituality, Andrew Harvey. As I shared in a previous DM,

Saturday, I proposed writing vulnerable congress people to resist the BBB bill. Today I urge you to write or contact bishops and archbishops of your

June 23, 2025: Art, Artist & Work in a Time of a Collective Dark NightThe Via Transformativa is all about our work, how we usher the

People are rightly asking: What can I do to express my resistance to lies, chaos, injustice, violence, evil? How to resist ignorance, cruelty, ignorance, and

Etty Hillesum wrote her diaries in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941 she ended up in the transit camp of Westerbork because she volunteered to accompany the

In my recent DMs, I have been praising the power of human creativity—to make the world a better place. The power of the Via Creativa

In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the role of the artist in naming our deepest concerns. We invoked the poetry of W. H. Auden writing

The following poem was composed by W. H. Auden during the disturbing goings-on in 1939, when Europe was exploding with fascist fervor and democracies were

Stating that the root cause of today’s violence is unhealthy masculinity exposes one to all sort of critiques. One-sidedness, over-simplification, insufficient proofs. But how can
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