
“Love thy Neighbor”—Stretching Our Appreciation of Community
In yesterday’s DM, I cited a striking passage from Safina’s book that stated that humans learned that whales are not a thing but, rather, neighbors
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In yesterday’s DM, I cited a striking passage from Safina’s book that stated that humans learned that whales are not a thing but, rather, neighbors

Speaking of community, it can be useful to turn to other species to learn about community. In his rich book, Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures

Speaking of community, it is fitting to ask the following question: What is the opposite of community? What are the primary obstacles of community? Let

Without a context bigger than ourselves, we all—whether we identify as right, left or none of the above—suffer from an “I am right, you are

A sacred pledge or vow is a wisdom practice that articulates the common values that a community agrees to [ ] strive to fulfill. We

Two years ago I linked up with two young people to call for a new kind of order, a new kind of community called the

Much of the commitment to and analysis of community that we find in the work of Howard Thurman and Dr. King derives from their African

African-American mystic and theologian Howard Thurman speaks often and eloquently of the primacy of community. The loneliness of the seeker for a community is sometimes

Far from being a collection of dead and inert objects, the universe is indeed a community, a gathering of subjects. The new universe story from

One way to approach a spiritual concept—and community is a spiritual concept—is to go to its opposite first. What are some examples of the opposite
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