If we were to awaken to the deep resources of our spiritual nature… We are watching with dismay the disintegration of human decency on all sides and repeatedly asking ourselves and each other — what happened to our values? Why are democratic values, such as respect for human dignity, freedom of conscience, protection of basic human rights […]

Where To, O Lord? The American bald eagle once symbolized a young, powerful nation. Today, that spirit of resilience and change belongs to all of humanity. We are at a crossroad amidst two profoundly destabilizing global historical processes. On the one hand, we are witnessing the massive erosion of democracy in the U.S. and the rise

A Perspective on Summit of the Future In the multiplicity of voices shouting at and over each other about the injustices of the continuous tragedy unfolding in Palestine, a clear or viable path forward has yet to emerge. Perhaps that has to do with our pervasive 21st century shortsightedness that reacts to the symptoms, and may

Luke Slott sings ‘One Hundred Thousand Veils’: One hundred thousand veils have covered the sun, and darkest clouds have blocked and blackened the blue sky… There is no war to fight, you have no sacred right, no holy book to cite to make these wrongs seem right. In the face of mounting human suffering and crisis — both

Interwoven out of multiple trunks, this single tree reaches upward to the light. When I was doing my doctoral work in adult development in the early 1990s, adulthood was understood as attaining personal stability and being able to care for others, as well as to contribute to society. Now more and more of us caring adults

A Double Rainbow? Every day the news is filled with staggering accounts of the unsustainability of our current national and global systems, yet we continue to try to live within them as though expecting some miracle to make things change for the better without having to do the hard work of foundational change of mindsets. But

Unitive justice is the next stage in our collective evolution — a bridge over troubled waters. Today, on the anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of sovereign Ukraine, as 141 countries in the U.N. General Assembly voted to demand withdrawal of Russian troops and an end to the fighting, and amidst massive compassion for the courage and stamina of

A Call for Unitive Justice — Women, Life, Freedom Separate and divided, we are split within. The choice is ours to reach out, heal, and connect to our common humanity. We are witnessing tremendous courage and resilience sprouting fresh in new and new places — in the women and men in Iran and their sisters in Afghanistan and elsewhere; in

You may be getting tired of hearing that we find ourselves at a critical point in history. And you may wonder what all the disasters and major events of the past 5 years have in common. In 2008, the world experienced a financial crisis. Then, a ruthless war in Syria sent millions of refugees to seek