Category: Community
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Belafonte and the Undertow
I have started to read “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War” by Jeff Sharlet: The book opens with a touching and detailed portrait of Harry Belafonte, who I will admit I have not known a lot about previously. Belafonte was a good friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and pivotal to the…
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Do Unto Others
We need to “love our neighbors” and find ways to demonstrate both individually and collectively our commitment to “The Golden Rule.” While Jesus Christ famously shared the Golden Rule in his “Sermon on the Mount,” the golden rule is an ethic of reciprocity which has support within other religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions outside of…