A National Week of Conversation A National Week of Conversation (NWOC) is being sponsored by...
Civil Dialogue
Bringing Humanity Back Into Social Media
If you were to do a quick Google search for “social media has ruined us,” you’d end up...
Religion
Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and A March for Our Lives
As I spent Saturday preparing a sermon for Palm Sunday and watching thousands of young people...
A Different Response to Mass Shootings
In these days when mass shootings (especially school shootings) are becoming “normal,” it seems to...
Justice
Fifty Years After King, We Still Need a “Radical...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King was...
Justice is Not a Zero-Sum Game
In game theory, zero-sum describes a game where one player’s gain is a loss to other players. A...
Politics
Now is Not The Time to Talk About Gun Control?
Now is not the time? Once again after another mass shooting in America, politicians respond with...
Women’s March in the Rural Midwest
In a historic and revolutionary 2017 Women’s March, more than 2.6 million people across the...
Race
Racist Starbucks Incident Was Wrong, Even If It Was Legal
A recent incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks is being defended because the behavior–while...
From Dr. King to Stephon Clark: Coming to Terms with My Own...
As we spend the month of April observing the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr...
Environment
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Sanctity of ALL Life
In an attempt to protect both nature and wildlife, President Obama proposed giving wilderness...