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Yesterday we employed David Korten’s book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, as a prophetic naming of the dynamics of our time, even our
The word “empire” has been in the air of late ever since Queen Elizabeth II died, perhaps. And it has been in our daily meditations
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 ended yesterday’s meditation with the fifth and sixth of Gandhi’s “social sins,” that of educating without character building and science without humanity. The latter includes inventions like
In yesterday’s DM we shared Mahatma Gandhi’s list of “seven social sins” that are “internal forces” that can crash society. Drawing on his wisdom, we might
In a “Time of Reckoning” with a painful past and a dangerous future, it may be useful to invoke the following teaching from Mahatma Gandhi.
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
We are meditating on empires and colonialism and religions’ complicity in both. Englanders sometimes raise the story that some Africans themselves were in league with
Will our times be remembered as an Age of Reckoning? That may be the case and the reckoning that is occurring may begin to explain why
I turn first to Otto Rank for an answer as to what role a monarchy plays in the 21st century (though he died in 1939). He says that humanity is
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