Connecting Across Divides, Opening Minds and Hearts Some time ago, a friend told me about “White Right: Meeting the Enemy”. This brilliant documentary by Deeyah Khan, a Muslim woman of color, is her creative response to the deluge of hate mail she received after an interview on the BBC. Khan…

Theocracy, Religious Freedom, and the Soul of America My aunt died a few days ago. She left this world, and began her journey into the great Beyond. Only a year and four months older than me, she felt more like an older sibling than an aunt. …

Wow, Olivia!!! brilliant article... this sentence in particular, along with the rest of what you've written here, is such a powerful call for new forms of shared meaning-making... really resonates with one of my favorite descriptions of deliberation 2.0 -- Dr. Debra's Hawhee''s "deliberation as the practice of imagining shared futures together". And, it resonates enormously with what I am hearing, as I gather stories from the agile Citizens' Councils in Vorarlberg... the subject of my doctoral dissertation.

I am wanting to share some of what’s been lifting my spirits, in these highly uncertain times… this essay is on the hopeful signs I’ve been seeing, and I’m writing it for my fellow politically-progressive/green, spiritual-but-not-religious peeps… unlike my last two essays, which were written primarily for the conservative evangelical…

My dear family members, I am writing to all of you, and in particular, to those of you who are born-again Christians. …

Part Two: Bridging political divides (Part One of this article explores three different ways we can respond to the question of “mixing business and politics”. Option One, the most challenging one, is to actively encourage political conversations across divides; Option Two involves refining our niche, so that we can have productive political conversations among generally…

Social Media in Challenging Times This article was inspired by a recent experience on a friend’s Facebook page. My friend is a professional coach, and does a lot of her marketing on FB, where she has nearly 5,000 friends. Recently, my friend was horrified by a recent statement made by…

written by Rodrigo Arce Rojas Everything we are living through in these difficult times is showing us the need for an ecologically-informed world view, as we can now clearly perceive the great weave of the Universe in which everything is interconnected. As Western civilization, we have attempted to deny that…

(this is the closing of a four-part article titled “On Relational Facilitation: Supporting the Creative Potential of Divergent Perspectives”. The second part is “I. Psychological safety, feeling “gotten”, and the social engagement system”, followed by “II. Welcoming differences while supporting creativity” ) If, as we explored earlier, our work is…