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MEDIA & ETHICS
Occasionally in the course of a day, I hear disparaging things about people I know and love. I’m sure this has happened to you. When it happens repeatedly about someone I respect, then I feel I have to say something.
TOLERANCE
I have good friends who are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist, and many more who are still searching and haven’t quite made up their minds.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
And the more I studied religions, the more I saw the common thread. They all believed that you are more than your body and that you do not end when it does.
TOLERANCE
While training as an Army officer, I was taught not to discuss politics and religion. This seemed eminently practical advice at the time. However, I have come to realize the flaw in this thinking. Communication is the universal solvent.
TOLERANCE
Attacks on religion begin with bashing minority groups—and spread from there. It is our duty and obligation to protect and respect all belief, because in so doing, we’re protecting our own.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
My Facebook brothers and sisters have become tribes, or more precisely, granfalloons. A granfalloon, as defined by the coiner of the term, Kurt Vonnegut, in his 1963 novel, Cat’s Cradle, is “a proud and meaningless association of human beings.”
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The theory of evolution postulates that the many different forms of life all descended from a common ancestor, with the many and diverse genetic detours caused by natural selection, mutation, and other factors.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
And at the end of the concert, she smiled. Women had shivered, men had wept. Reverend James Cleveland, who had brought her to that Church to sing with that choir—his choir—was so moved that he had to stop. He was so embraced, he had to sit down. He sobbed into a napkin.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Are science and spirituality mutually exclusive? Alan Lightman, a physicist who has researched black holes, stellar dynamics and relativistic gravitation theory, no longer thinks so . He went to Cambodia on a foreign aid mission to help the people of a small village build up their infrastructure.
