A Life of Peaceful Resistance Dorothy Day’s approach to peaceful resistance was distinctive because it joined radical social activism, Christian anarchism and absolute pacifism. As co founder of the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933, she saw resistance not simply as protest or political strategy, but as a complete way of life. For Day, belief and…
AI safety engineer Mrinank Sharma has resigned from the multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence corporation Anthropic, declaring that “the world is falling apart and is in peril.” In leaving behind his career in AI development to become a poet and coach, Sharma is stepping away from the machinery of technological progress and into a life of creative human encounter. His departure feels…
We are living in an age of manufactured noise, where the screens in our pockets act as spiritual narcotics, designed to keep us reactive rather than reachful. But beneath the crumbling institutions and the media spin, a deeper detoxification is happening. To survive the collapse of the old systems, we must trade our outrage for…
Listening to the Pain of the World: Healing the Human Soul My heart is listening to the pain of the world. There is so much anger, fear, suspicion, projection, despair, violence, grief, sadness, and mistrust. We live in a time when trustworthy leaders are almost nowhere to be found. Some are dictators. Others are neoliberal…
Originally written for the Lynn News, Thought for the Day The Cathars of Languedoc were a group of medieval Christians who have been very close to my heart since I first learned of them in 2011. The Cathars were called the good people by friends and neighbours. They were a Gnostic Christian community who lived in…
The pages of Twitter and Facebook have swelled with bile concerning the current Middle East crisis. Twitter especially is a toxic swamp. The grandstanding, often accompanied by ad hominem comments, misses the fact that human beings have, and are, dying horribly. Too many lives – Israeli and Palestinian – have been destroyed already. This alone…
My deepest hope for you dear reader is that you experience a sense of deep, deep joy and unconditional loving belonging. I hope you will enjoy true peace that surpasses all understanding. If you struggle with physical and/or emotional pain or even the searing pain of trauma, I hope for you to experience healing alleviation…
During the rise of the terrorist movement ISIS over a decade ago, the world was horrified by their cruel medieval butchery displayed in barbaric live streamed executions. These executions included burning people alive and hacking off heads. The horror stories of ISIS are the same horror stories of the past as seen in the crusades,…
I have recently learned of a Franciscan movement that existed for a short time after the death of St Francis, called the ‘Fraticelli’. The Fraticelli (Italian for “Little Brethren”) or ‘Spiritual Franciscans’ who desired to live more closely to the original ideal of poverty, as lived by St Francis (and dare I say St Clare…