Tolerance May 6, 2021 On This National Day of Prayer, Let’s All Join In Together Some might quibble about the differences in our faiths and beliefs. I choose not to. Instead, I choose to join in the prayer... READ MORE
Tolerance April 28, 2021 What I Learned About the World on My Ride On the first real day of spring here in central Oregon, I dusted off my bicycle and went for a ride. My neighbors, devout... READ MORE
Tolerance April 2, 2021 The True Meaning of Passover: Celebrating Freedom and Tolerance In this season of Passover, Jews around the world celebrate freedom from bondage, a never-before-or-since historical occurrence... READ MORE
Tolerance March 21, 2021 The United Nations Taps Youth as Our Best Hope Against Hate This year, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is chillingly well-timed. READ MORE
Tolerance February 18, 2021 Online Religious Harassment: What I Learned From Summer Camp and 3 Wise Monkeys There isn’t some mass solution to this. It takes individual action. Or inaction: the simplest thing to do when some bit... READ MORE
Tolerance February 8, 2021 Is Nothing Sacred? United Nations Moves to Protect Religious Sites The United Nations and its member states have a complicated history with regard to religious freedom. READ MORE
Tolerance January 14, 2021 Why You Should Speak Up The government cannot regulate kindness. It is you and me that can really make a difference. And no matter what anyone would... READ MORE
Tolerance December 30, 2020 Meddle With Religion, Pay the Price The entire premise of our nation’s founding is eliminating tyranny from people’s lives. Prime amongst tyrannies to avoid,... READ MORE
Tolerance December 17, 2020 An Egyptian and an Israeli—What’s Wrong With This Picture? Egyptian media, live and online, pounced on the show of fellowship as inappropriate, seditious and treasonous, calling for... READ MORE
Tolerance December 14, 2020 I’ll STAND Up for You I’ll stand up for truth and fairness and equal rights. I’ll stand up for your freedom of thought and expression. I’ll... READ MORE
Tolerance December 11, 2020 How I Was Prejudiced and Why I Was Wrong But the only “knowledge” I had came from a “news” story about the marriage ceremony. I had never personally visited... READ MORE
Tolerance December 10, 2020 Celluloid, Cigarettes and Religion It was the early 90s and we were sitting in a dingy film editing room in Encino, California. I looked over at Steve, who’d... READ MORE
Tolerance December 10, 2020 On Human Rights Day, Here’s to Uplifting One Another Today is Human Rights Day. It’s the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by countries... READ MORE
Tolerance November 26, 2020 A Millennial’s Plea for Religious Tolerance After attending university and later, in corporate America, I noticed an odd trend—the more people become “molded” into... READ MORE
Tolerance November 16, 2020 International Day of Tolerance—Why It’s Worth Celebrating The idea that one group has a monopoly on the truth has been proven false time and time again. We are each shaped by the uniqueness... READ MORE
Tolerance November 10, 2020 Why Tolerance Isn’t Enough Strange as it may seem, this came to mind while pondering the subject of religious tolerance. Religious tolerance is broadly... READ MORE
Tolerance November 4, 2020 Why Scientology Is Nonpolitical That date was June 14, 1965. Years before I was born and many years before I became a Scientologist, on that day Scientology... READ MORE
Tolerance October 24, 2020 75 Years Later—United Nations Day On October 24, 1945, the UN was founded with the atrocities of World War II still emblazoned on the world’s collective consciousness. READ MORE
Tolerance October 15, 2020 Discrimination Is Passé In 1963, Martin Luther King had a dream. A dream of freedom and equality for all. He got shot for it. The bullet which killed... READ MORE
Tolerance October 2, 2020 Can We Make 2020 the Year of Tolerance? Change won’t happen unless you and I stand up for what is right and demand that our beliefs—whatever they may be—are... READ MORE
Tolerance October 1, 2020 Charlie Hebdo: Freedom of Expression and Its Responsibilities While there is no rote answer to that question, I believe that upholding free expression has two sides. One side, of course,... READ MORE
Tolerance September 21, 2020 Will the Coming Year Be Sweet or Bitter? It Is Up to Us The meaning of the call remains the same, however. The end of a year and the beginning of a new one are a time for reflection,... READ MORE
Tolerance September 14, 2020 What the Wonder of Stonehenge Has To Do With Religious Freedom The news reminded me of my own visit to Stonehenge some decades ago. Like so many others, I was very curious about what drove... READ MORE
Tolerance September 10, 2020 “Cults”: Peeling Back the Label When any label about someone else is offered, peel it back. Find out what’s actually underneath. Free them from the cage... READ MORE
Tolerance August 28, 2020 Race & Religion: Bigotry Is Bigotry Interestingly, the two “discriminations”—racial and religious—have historical intersections in this land of the free.... READ MORE
Tolerance August 23, 2020 Survival of the Friendliest? It looks like we’ve had it all wrong since 1859. That’s when Charles Darwin began the evolution revolution with his seminal... READ MORE
Tolerance August 20, 2020 Is “Tolerance” in Hollywood a Myth? Ask a Scientologist Imagine you’re Hollywood. You’re not like everyone else. You’re passionate about your causes; about injustice and the... READ MORE
Tolerance June 24, 2020 Your Right to “Say Anything” May Be Wrong Do people have prejudices? Unfortunately, absolutely. Do we have the right to broadcast our personal prejudices to others,... READ MORE
Tolerance April 21, 2020 You Have the Power to Create Calm The very essence of our spiritual side is the ability to create. It is and always will be completely under our control. READ MORE
Tolerance April 10, 2020 On Advice Not to Love, From Unhappy People As time went on and more people criticized others in my presence, I started worrying more and more about what others thought... READ MORE
