Although Las Posadas is a beautiful ritual, the reality it addresses is a painful one: the reality of human need and exclusion.
Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case,
95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and
practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in
recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our
origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and
his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit
that Jesus鈥� presence and teaching unleashed.
Is it time for Americans to build a culture that rejects empire and adopts the principles of the Jubilee?
An interview with Matthew Fox. Organized
religion needs to get its act together and bring in the
feminine, the widom of Sophia. See also his 95
theses.
Monitoring human rights abuses at checkpoints in occupied Palestine
Utah Phillips.聽 Photo provided by Fleming & Associates, Inc We met each other a number of years ago when Ani was doing a single in Philadelphia. She was playing at
What would you ask of the people who will care for you when you are unable to care for yourself?
Social security privatization, the collapse of
private pensions, low rates of savings -- what should we
do?
This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
These grandparents bring savvy and compassion to the task of raising another generation
It turns out there is a reason humans live decades after our reproductive years end, a reason obscured by reference to "the golden years" and endless products designed to keep us young. The truth is we need our elders to be elders.
Carl Anthony on the regional equity movement, and making cities work.
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
Movement building is not just about winning on a particular issue, says Grace Lee Boggs. It is about advancing the evolution of human society.
Project for Public Spaces works to create places that attract people. What makes these places work?
Vancouver, Seattle, London, and Chicago are getting healthier and more beautiful through "green urbanism."
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
developed "community benefits agreements" to specify benefits
to be provided to neighborhoods affected by a particular
development.
Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national organization working for economic and social equity. Her work has centered on revitalizing low-income communities and communities of color and public-interest law. She recently co-authored Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (2002, WW Norton & Co).
Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her message: Peace is founded in healthy ecosystems, access to natural resources, and democracy.
When farmworkers needed a way to reach one another, they invited activists nationwide for a radio barn raising.
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors鈥攂ut it鈥檚 getting tougher
Interview with Amy Goodman, how she created
Democracy Now
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
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