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One side of compassion is called justice. This is the biblical meaning of compassion, which Eckhart names this way: “Compassion means justice.” Thomas Aquinas was
Thomas Aquinas reminds us that beauty and harmony go together and that God is praised as “wise and beautiful” because all beings “are full of
People who have been abused and undergone trauma often need to work hard to rediscover the goodness of existence. One person I know was contemplating
Human survival today requires the survival of the rich biodiversity of Mother Earth. Both require that we recognize goodness with fresh eyes, grateful eyes just
We have considered how central the experience of goodness is to Julian who lived through the severest pandemic of European history. How the search for
Recently, Rabbi Michael Lerner offered a reminder that “Hanukkah is not just for Jews.” I agree. Great feast days of all the world’s religions invariably
We are meditating on Thomas Aquinas’ teachings on the common good and justice and how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Aquinas’ teachings in the
An era of the “3 C’s” of Coronavirus, Climate change, and Colonialism and Racism that form the “Crack in the liberty bell” is a time
Dr. King urges us to create the beloved community. Community means the common good. The age of individualism is over (the modern age); Good things
We are living through upheavals in our souls and society brought on by the triple emergencies I call the “3 C’s”: coronavirus; climate change; and
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