Original post written & contributed by B. Loewe When I was fifteen years old I was in my ninth year of Catholic school. I had internalized Catholic social teaching based […]
newDharma Talk | Bearing Witness to Suffering
As a friend of mine likes to say, “You got people, you got problems.” Even if we’re simply facing ourselves, we’ve still got problems. We can’t escape our pain. We […]
Welcome | february 2013
The other night I watched the 1991 feature JFK about the Kennedy assassination. The film’s implications are frightening. While JFK may seem to have little to do with February, with […]
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.’s Forward Motion for a World That Works for All
In what is being billed as “the largest climate rally in history,” thousands of people are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Feb. 17 […]
Alice Walker | Beauty in Truth
Writer and activist Alice Walker will be featured in a documentary, Beauty in Truth directed by British filmmaker and activist Prathiba Parmar. The film opens in London next month and soon […]
adrienne maree brown | coevolution through friendship
coevolution is “the change of a biological object triggered by the change of a related object.” a couple of years ago i hosted a community of practice. one of the outcomes […]
february 2013
WEST COAST fearlessMeditation I | Practice of the Body CXC | Center for Transformative Change | Berkeley, CA Friday | March 1, 2013 | 7:00-9:30pm Register 2-Day Kingian Nonviolence […]
How Nonprofits Make Data Fun & Informative
Nonprofits have long relied on stories to help stir emotion. However, as the nonprofit world has evolved, so, too, has the need to communicate more than just emotion. Foundations and […]
Why Health Officials Want You to Eat More Potassium
High blood pressure is one health risk that is notorious within the black community. Diet and exercise and managing stress are the three things that come to mind when it […]
Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display
Billboards are everywhere in New York City. They’re on subway trains and in stations, and on top of and inside taxis. But few, if any, have been anything like […]
The Power of Outrospection
What will change the world? According to Roman Krznaric, grassroots empathy and the way we think about other people. Krznaric talks about how this human behavior could revolutionize human relationships (and […]
Refueling Compassion After Burnout
This starts, like many of my stories do, with a very young me reading comic books. When I was about eight, I was reading a Superman comic, one in which […]