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The Reporter I trust (and there aren’t many)

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When I was a child television news in our home meant Walter Cronkite. In junior high school history class we watched his “You Are There” series of historical reenactments. There were reasons he was the most trusted man in America; why President Johnson once said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America” and became [...]

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A Post About A Bookstore

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My first true mentor was author Jean Brody (Gideon’s House, A Coven of Women, Cleo). I met her when I first had the guts to join the Cambria Writers Workshop and read my work out loud (picture if you will: hands trembling as they try to hold the printout; hammering heart; much pausing for life-giving [...]

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

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Dr. Joy DeGruy (formerly Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary), author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, is a member of the Bahá’í faith community. Understanding this context breathes deeper meaning into Dr. DeGruy’s work than I would have had without this knowledge. I recently spent a week with a family [...]

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Jeremy Rifkin – RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilization

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Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases. No matter how much we put our minds to the task of meeting the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world, the human [...]

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Five Ways to Jumpstart the World

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In my new young adult novel Jumpstart the World, Frank, my transgender character, tells Elle,”The world doesn’t always play by its own rules.” He says we all agree that there should be equality for everyone. But of course there isn’t. And we just let it slide. He says, “That’s why there’s such a thing as [...]

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Are we born racist?

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Book Review: Are We Born Racist?: New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology By Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Much of the research I’ve done (and classes I’ve taken through the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University over the past few years) to help me understand the history, legacy, and [...]

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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When I was a child in the early 1960′s I received a polio vaccine, as did my sister and most everyone I knew. What I did not know until recently is that the person we have to thank for this gift of the virtual eradication of a horrible disease is a black woman from rural [...]

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Steinbeck and son – a father’s gift

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon
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The first time a father shares his deepest thoughts with his children on the curious mystery called “love” can be memorable or mundane. In this recorded podcast, Brooke Leigh Sheldon shares with you the story of John Steinbeck’s wise offerings to his son, Thom. Please share this story!

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On St. Patrick’s Day – Claim your Anam Cara

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We all know those times when something really hits the spot and we want “seconds”. Well, apparently this post hit the spot for a lot of you, because a whole bunch of you requested we repost it.  So, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and to let you know we’re always listening, we lay this [...]

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This St. Patrick’s Day Claim your Anam Cara – Ancient Celtic Secrets of Friendship

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

John O’Donohue did much in his short life to popularize and demystify the history and lore of Celtic tradition and spirituality. His gifted authorship captures me in its reflection of his own inspired living. O’Donohue’s focus was on Celtic wisdom’s teaching that within each of us is a world of possibilities and that we must [...]

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