Guns, Changes of Mind, and the Cost of Dialogue
My opinion on government gun policy is starting to shift. That shift fills me with dread—and the reason, I think, may say a lot about why dialogue is such a hard sell. Let’s start with [...]
My opinion on government gun policy is starting to shift. That shift fills me with dread—and the reason, I think, may say a lot about why dialogue is such a hard sell. Let’s start with [...]
Think of a controversial issue in the news. More likely than not, you’ve already formed opinions about it. How did you come to those opinions? The question keeps arising for me this month, thanks to [...]
Several days after our latest experiment in gun dialogue, I find myself both more hopeful and less hopeful. Fortunately, more hopeful is winning. Last week I posed a few basic ideas that, just maybe, every [...]
When it comes to guns, what can we all agree on? You may think this a fool’s question, especially if you’ve spent any time with the media (print, broadcast, social, or otherwise) in the past [...]
Does this ever happen to you? You get involved in a new endeavor—a different line of work, an unusual hobby, a new practice in your faith tradition, whatever. You read about it, talk to people [...]
Sometimes people inspire the hell out of me. That includes some of you over the past three weeks. In my last post—shortly after the horrific shootings in Aurora, Colorado—I posed a few questions for people [...]
It has been some 30 hours since the horrific shootings in Aurora, Colorado. Even 2,000 miles away, the shock is still raw. I cannot imagine the suffering that the people involved must be enduring at [...]
Marianne Williamson’s letter to Sarah Palin didn’t exactly make front-page news when it first came out. But it’s required reading for anyone who cares about dialogue. Williamson, a spiritual teacher who, by her own admission, [...]