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The traditional definition for evil in the West has been privatio boni, privation of the good. This says a lot. It says that evil has
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The traditional definition for evil in the West has been privatio boni, privation of the good. This says a lot. It says that evil has

We are undergoing—again—a presidential impeachment which the constitution refers to as “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This is following on a mob scene at the nation’s

In discussing Julian of Norwich, who was a feminist theologian 700 years before feminism, we have necessarily come up against the topic of patriarchy and

Yesterday we considered how Julian’s teachings are contrary to bullying, which puts control before wonder and domination before co-operation and power-over before compassion or power-with.

Two Daily Meditations ago, we considered Julian’s teaching vs. bullying. We mentioned how omnipresent bullying can be—it is, alas– not restricted to children’s playgrounds or

We are meditating on Truth and its opposite. The Cosmic Christ dwells in each of us and declares: “I am the Way, the Truth and

In his important study On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder alerts us that the first stage of tyranny is an “open hostility” to verifiable facts. A study

Politicians frequently have a problem with truth and lies. Herod did, as we have seen. So too did Pontius Pilate, who asked Jesus before he

I have spoken of the need to sometimes pray the news. Two days ago was the Feast Day of the Epiphany in the Christian calendar,

Proof of the power of ritual can be found in its opposite where instead of using ceremony and ritual to awaken consciousness and to invite
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