There have been 74 shootings since the Sandy Hook tragedy. That’s on average of one shooting every week.
Read More »Lessons I learned from hanging out with the pope. Sort of…
I spent the weekend with Pope Francis. Well… Not exactly. A friend of mine lent her cardboard cut-out of the supreme pontiff to me for a special project I had to carry out on a college university.
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“We would do well to be mindful one another—especially of our area’s history. We have triumphed before. We can keep moving forward, but only together. “ – Skyler Oberst How are we going to overcome our racist history?
Read More »Our relationship to language is changing
In a perfect world, we’d all understand each other. We’d all know exactly the meaning and context of every sentence, and it would always be the same—across cultures, times, languages—fixed on the pursuit of verifiable truth.
Read More »Practice your own religion, but don’t persecute others
It is wrong to use scripture (ANY scripture) to discriminate against others and it is wrong to declare oneself the victim when one has been caught doing such a thing.
Read More »An unsettling rise in Islamophobia, intolerance in our community
Earlier this month, I saw a billboard advertising an Islamophobic lecture series on the end of the world.
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