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Read more: The center of our being“There is grace in life,” says Paul Tillich in his book The Shaking of the Foundations. “The center of being, in which our own center…
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Read more: We need silenceWe live in “an oversaturated culture,” says David Ulin in his book The Lost Art of Reading—Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. We “skitter…
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Read more: Behave as human beings“So what do we do?” David Ulin asks in his book The Lost Art of Reading—Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. “Same as ever:…
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Read more: Respond with hope“The true act of resistance is to respond with hope….I am not without hope, not without spirit, although somedays such a posture is difficult. We…
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Read more: No news—for a few daysRecently, before we left for Arkansas, I declared a ban on news. I didn’t want to hear anything about what was happening in Washington. But,…
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Read more: A peaceful placeRecently my husband, my daughter, my son and I headed for Arkansas with visions of colorful leaves in our head. Alas, we arrived when the…
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Read more: Respect and liberty“Let us imagine a world where women, freed from the grip of violence, flourish in respect and liberty.” Those words are part of a monument…
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Read more: Women’s empowerment?In her book The Power, Naomi Alderman explores “the more extreme results of a movement that seeks rather than interrogates power.” However, if feminism becomes…
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Read more: We need nurturing in return“The whole male-female thing in this country is very volatile right now,” Glenn Close, the actress, once said. “I think many women are feeling used…
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Read more: It’s we, we, the world”It’s time for us to realize that we are a part of all the suffering in the world–those who are hungry and starving, all those…