In the second season of the Wachowskis’ web series Sense8, there’s an exchange between the ever-earnest Capheus and a television anchor. “I drive a bus,” Capheus tells the anchor. “If I didn’t take people where they hired me to take them, I wouldn’t expect them to get back on my bus. We expect leaders to […]
The Moral Revival at Riverside
I spent yesterday evening at the Riverside Church, a nondenominational church with great Gothic arches and 80 years of practice supporting Christian social activism. Riverside is the church where in 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared the war in Vietnam a moral failure. To this day, the church includes portraits of King, and a wing […]
What makes public life work well
Commit no wrong, but good deeds do, and let thy heart be pure.” —Dhammapada We have to consciously decide that to the best of our individual ability, and out of respect for life and all the beings, animals, and plants, we will live our lives in a way that doesn’t bring harm to others. The […]
Throwing our voices in public communications
The ventriloquist is an entertainer whose performance involves throwing their voice so that it appears to come from another source, like a puppet. Think Jeff Dunham. The stage actor is an entertainer whose performance includes conducting conversations with peers on stage but projecting those conversations out into the theater audience. Think Shakespeare. And then there’s […]
Reader Review 05
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. Quakers examining core principles: non-violence and a returning Christ QuakerQuaker: A Hermeneutic of Non-Violence (Randy Oftedahl) QuakerQuaker is a site that collects posts from Friends (Quakers) from across the internet […]
From the Kansas State Constitution
Sec. 1 – Equal rights All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sec. 2 – Political power; privileges All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and are instituted for their equal protection […]
