How to become a billionaire
Seems like there must be more to it than cheating people for nickels and dimes? I'm wondering, after leveraging my Amazon Prime deal to get a "six-month" free trial digital subscription to the Washing
Summoning the Will for Climate Action
This November, we can take a few moments to research how incumbent state and federal officials have voted on environmental issues—not what they say but how they voted. The post Summoning the Will for
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But his emails
WaPo's fact-checker finds the "repeated pleas of ignorance warrant heavy skepticism." That's the suit-and-tie way of saying he's a facile liar, a Three Pinocchio liar, which is the best kind, because
Peace Through a Cup of Tea: Genshitsu Sen, Zen, and the Way of Tea
PEACE THROUGH A BOWL OF TEA A talk delivered on the 19th of September, 2018 at the first Annual Dr Genshitsu Sen Lecture Series at the Huntington Library Glenn Taylor Webb (Professor Webb is b
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The Mysteries of the Kabbalah for Today: How to Move Deeper into the Life You Already Have
In response to the word Kabbalah, many people have a vague notion that it relates to a mysterious branch of the Jewish tradition. Others may add that it involves reading arcane texts. If you dig deep
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Daily Bread (Week 22)
I have been seriously pissed off since the news of the attempted rape by the current nominee for the Supreme Court. Why am I not surprised that the “groper in chief” would nominate another privileg
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what's the diff!
During my eleven day Baltic sojourn, I had the opportunity to visit schools in Finland and Latvia. I was particularly interested in Finland schools due to their high ranking in the international PISA
UUAWOL ministries index - Comparison of FEMA performance in two hurricanes in U.S. in 2017
Number of people who dies as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico according to a George Washington University study = 2,975 Number of people who died according to President Trump = 64 Amount of
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Ask Alexa - What if I don't want to get a life?
Alexa: What if I don't want to get a life? Kurt Vonnegut said that the purpose of life is to fart around. You are a human BEING not a human DOER.
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Passion
“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.” ―Israelmore Ayivor What are you passionate about? The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritua
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Sitting in a Bland Funeral Thinking About What We Should Do For Our Dead
We’ve all heard someone say “funerals are for the living.” No. This is sacrilege. This is a Protestant and humanist idea that has no place in Paganism and polytheism. Funerals are for the community, w
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Addressing class reduces racism. Addressing race increases it.
Race reductionists say ending poverty won't cure racism. People who want to end poverty agree—some racists will be racists until they die. But there is evidence that ending economic inequality reduces
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Kitty Wake Up Calls
I love my cats. And I wasn’t even mad to get woken up at 6:30 am. I know they need to eat.But, the 9:30 am was annoying when I wanted to sleep in.I did anyway and probably ended up sleeping later than
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Private schools focus on race instead of class because it's cheaper
How Much Do You Pay for College? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Addressing class inequality is more expensive than addressing racial and gender inequities because low-inc
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Exodus: The Card Game
A few months ago, I wrote about prototyping “Exodus: The Card Game,” a game based on the wanderings of the Israelites. After lots of play with both kids and adults (and lots of changes to the rules),
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A cancer on the country
John Solomon's account is that the president was "very relaxed, very confident" in his decision to (very selectively) unclassify documents from the ongoing FBI probe into the scope (not the existence,
Happy autumnal equinox
TWH – This year, the autumnal equinox falls on Sept. 22 at 9:54 PM ET in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the moment that officially signals the start of fall. At this time, there will be an equal amou
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How the wartime Daily Service might have sounded, first notes
It’s been more than a month since I order my copy of the BBC’s wartime supplement prayer book, Each Returning Day: A Book of Prayers for Use in Time of War and I’ve not gotten it, so let’s move ahead
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Philosophy Group Schedule
We are now discussing On Betrayal by Avishai Margalit (Harvard University Press, 2017). We began our regular Fall Discussions September 5th and anticipate continuing our discussion of this book throu
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