Part of my job description as a contemplative involves paying attention. When world events come to the fore, I try to listen deeply, take the events into my heart and mind, and let them make [...]
Over the past week or two, I’ve had a number of vigorous and civil conversations about police behavior, the use of force, and race in America. Emerging from those conversations are several points that, I [...]
Maybe it’s that I’m reading Alice Walker’s incredible The Color Purple just as the commentary around Trayvon Martin has taken center stage again. Whatever the reason, the loud, angry cacophony about race in America has [...]
I did not see this coming, and frankly, I’m pretty embarrassed about it. A while back, I wrote a column on the still-hypothetical “national conversation on race.” A dear colleague emailed me this week to [...]