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Nichola
The following blog grows out of a Christian service I attended on the Sunday before Pentacost and out of a conversation I had with Rabbi Michael Lerner a couple days later about the Jewish holiday... More »
Nichola
21,500 more troops, despite a mandate from the American people to end the bloodshed in Iraq. For a sane strategy for dealing with this, see Rabbi Lerner's latest: http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=20070110184703996
Nichola
Much of the liberal political struggle of the last one hundred years has revolved around the acquisition and defense of a set of rights that we believe to be inherent to the dignity of every... More »
Nichola
There are certain words and phrases that trigger in me a Pavlovian fury, and “family values” is one of those phrases. I suspect I’m not alone in reading this phrase as right-wing code for the... More »
Nichola
I am returning tonight from four days at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in Pittsburgh. There is nothing quite like spending a weekend with 3,000 people who believe that poetry... More »
Nichola
The coincidence this year of tax day with Easter and Passover celebrations has gotten me thinking. Is there anyone for whom tax preparation is truly a celebratory occasion? I couldn’t agree more with the idea... More »
Nichola
How hopeful are you right now about the future of this country? If you’re anything like me, the answer to that question probably varies from day to day. On good days, I see compassion and... More »
Nichola
How hopeful are you right now about the future of this country? If you’re anything like me, the answer to that question probably varies from day to day. On good days, I see compassion and... More »
Nichola
This morning as I waited half-somnolent in line at the neighborhood coffee shop, I got one of those sudden and often unflattering glimpses of my own behavior. I realized I was rehearsing my order,... More »
Nichola
In their book The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander point out that most of what we think we know about what is impossible consists of theories that we either make up... More »
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