One of the basic principles that I try to practice as a Buddhist-Christian is to oppose without denouncing. As a Buddhist teacher once put it to a group of Christian liberation theologians, “We Buddhists don’t denounce.” This is one of the most difficult, but also one of the most important, things we Christians can learn [...]
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A “Spiritual Reaganomics” in the Catholic Church?
That’s one of the statements that echoed in my mind and feelings as I flew home from the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, in Cleveland, June 10-13. This image of a “spiritual Reaganomics” operating within the Catholic Church was offered in the Plenary Address by Catherine Clifford and Richard Gaillardetz to [...]
Democracy or Dependency: The State of the US Congress
Democracy or Dependency: The State of the US Congress In a recent THE NATION article, Harvard Law Professor, Lawrence Lessig, lays out compelling evidence for the following conclusion about the state of our democracy due to the state of our Congress: “Rather than being, as our framers promised, an institution ‘dependent on the People,’ Congress [...]
