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Unhealthy Relationships: How to love the people we no longer even like

Unhealthy Relationships: How to love the people we no longer even like

Posted by | May 27, 2022

The most common question people ask me when we talk either in person or virtually, is essentially a variation on a single theme: “How do I love someone I no longer like?” They have recently realized something about a friend, family member, or partner that they simply cannot reconcile with the person they once knew and loved: a theological belief, political affiliation, or stance on a social issue that is so far beyond what they consider within the bounds of decency. In many cases, these people have attempted for years to navigate these differences with difficult conversations or with...

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Lost to Hate: It is time to stop accommodating racist White fanatics stuck in a past that will not be revived

Lost to Hate: It is time to stop accommodating racist White fanatics stuck in a past that will not be revived

Posted by | May 27, 2022

It is time to stop normalizing and accommodating the White Supremacists among us. They may be a third of America, but they are the lost third, longing for return to a time we will never revisit. Instead of looking forward, they are stuck to a past that will never be revived, no matter how many elections they rig or people they terrorize or kill. The America I was born into and grew up in as a kid was a very different place from today. In the 1950s the country was firmly under the control of straight white men: Blacks –...

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Democracy under threat: When disasters bring instability and those ready to exploit the situation

Democracy under threat: When disasters bring instability and those ready to exploit the situation

Posted by | May 26, 2022

Putin’s attack on Ukraine is producing a series of crises which are going to, in all probability, bring a period of great pain and instability to the world and to America in the near future. Republicans are already working to exploit it. By the election this fall much of the unity that exists because of today’s Ukraine passion will be exhausted, but the crisis it’s produced will just be beginning. And, just as Putin probably now hopes, it’ll stretch some democracies to the breaking point. Americans think we have stood down Putin, but the forces he represents — strongman...

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Life returns to Irpin: Repairing vital infrastructure has happened quickly but healing still a slow process

Life returns to Irpin: Repairing vital infrastructure has happened quickly but healing still a slow process

Posted by | May 21, 2022

It is a gloomy April morning. My hands are freezing but they share due to emotion and not temperature. I am preparing to see with my own eyes what I have only watched on TV and internet video. I am visiting the Hero City of Irpin. I arrived in Irpin by a new route from Kyiv, one that looked the same before the war. There was a small checkpoint, like one that had existed since February 2014. But now there was a stain in the road from a burned truck that been recently removed. Residents from Irpin had desperately...

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Buffalo shooter not a lone wolf: How mainstream racial discourse nurtures White domestic terrorists

Buffalo shooter not a lone wolf: How mainstream racial discourse nurtures White domestic terrorists

Posted by | May 18, 2022

“We don’t want to be protected after the fact. We want to be protected and treated like we matter without it taking a white supremacist shooting up our community.Time and time again they’ve shown nobody cares about us here. It’s a pattern.” – Marlene Brown, 58-year-old Buffalo resident “People are going to try to excuse it as this person not being from Buffalo,  they’ll say things like ‘This is not who we are.’ I just want to be clear that this is exactly who Buffalo is. It doesn’t matter that we have a Black mayor. This is still a...

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When treason doth prosper: The daily efforts to transform America into a one-party state

When treason doth prosper: The daily efforts to transform America into a one-party state

Posted by | May 18, 2022

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a motion on April 22 asking a judge to put an end to the attempts of Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to stonewall the committee. Meadows has tried to avoid talking to the committee or providing it with documents, using a number of different arguments that essentially try to establish that the U.S. president cannot be held accountable by Congress. The committee’s motion carefully explains why those arguments are wrong. To support their belief that the Congress has the right and responsibility to...

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