How Can Civic Infrastructure (Whatever That Is) Help Dialogue?
Lately I’ve been writing about civic infrastructure here. Civic what [...]
Introverts, Shoeshines, and Doing Difficult Things (Like Dialogue)
Two wildly different stories from last weekend, and what they [...]
More to the News Story than Meets the Eye
It doesn’t feel good to criticize The PBS NewsHour. The [...]
A Starting Point on Race for White People, Maybe
Maybe it’s that I’m reading Alice Walker’s incredible The Color [...]
Listening: You Can Always Learn More
Somewhere around fifth grade, our class had a unit on [...]
A Meditation on Your Adversary
I’m trying out a new meditation exercise. If you like, [...]
A Glimpse of Empathy as a Promoter of Dialogue
Last month I wrote about thinking from within someone else’s [...]
The White House, a Dialogue on Mental Health…and You
You may have seen this on the news. Would you [...]
Hard Questions: “Do That and I’m Leaving†(the Sequel)
I am a leader in my worship community who deals [...]
Hard Questions from the Dialogue Trenches—“Do That and I’m Leaving‖& a Book Giveaway
One great joy of writing a book, from my perspective, [...]