Prejudice Saves Us a Painful Trouble – The Trouble of Thinking

09.27.2020 ________________________________________ A letter recently published in the Portsmouth Herald argued, approvingly, that Donald Trump “started the idea of ‘America Continue reading →

It Never Ends: Racism. Anti-Semitism. Xenophobia.

11.24.2019 ________________________________________ “The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. Continue reading →

Sitti. Sitto. Grandmothers: Compasses That Point to Justice, Love, Resistance

08.25.2019 ________________________________________ “My grandmother lives on the other side of the earth,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes in Sitti’s Secrets. “She Continue reading →

Complicit with Trump: Complicit with Racism.

07.20.2019 ________________________________________ First, I was angry – really angry. Then, I was sad – really sad. Today, after watching President Continue reading →

Waking Up, Choosing Abundance

07.14.2019 ________________________________________ “Let it pass.” “You can’t personally respond to every affront,” I’m told by friends when I take critiques Continue reading →

Here’s the Truth: Moving From Slavery Toward Freedom

04.14.2019 On Palm Sunday, humbly seated astride a donkey, Jesus entered Jerusalem along a path of palm fronds laid before Continue reading →

Ilhan Omar: It’s An American Story

02.17.2019 ________________________________________ Ilhan Omar is an African-American Muslim who, as a Somali refugee, arrived in America in 1995 and became Continue reading →

Eid al-Adha: Blue-Eyed Blondes to Black-Skinned Africans

08.19.2018 ________________________________________   For more than 1,400 years Muslims have gathered in what is today Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, the Continue reading →