dodmenno.org, Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery   What is the Doctrine of Discovery? The “Doctrine of Discovery” is a philosophical and legal framework dating to the 15th century that gave Christian governments…

According to an analysis by the Pew Center, two out of three Americans now support Black Lives Matter. Even more strikingly, almost as many understand today’s protests to be “rooted in…

From Richard Rohr, August 2020 If we are granted this first stage of Order (and not all are), we feel innocent and safe. Everything is basically good, it all means something,…

By Patrick Henry, Waging Nonviolence. August 21, 2020  | EDUCATE! This article was originally published in the June/July 2020 issue of The Catholic Worker.  In the 1918 Flu Pandemic, 30,000 died in NYC…

From the Tao Te Ching Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in…

Excerpt, NYT July 28, 2020 – Read how communities are fighting back! Environmental racism is/was a term coined by the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, a leader of the protest in…

  Masha Gessen, 2020 “politics” and “political” — “the vital project of negotiating how we live together as a city, a state or a country; of working across difference; of…

By Robert Mickens, published on Feb 20, 2020 and re-published in La Croix in August 2020. What’s the greatest threat to the Roman Catholic Church today – a schism? Or…