Civility and compassion in public discourse? Walking away from the Last Word (an excerpt from TMP)

I listened to a fellow educatorlamentlast week that ourstudents no longer understand how to civilly disagree with one another. I thought about his comment this weekend as I observed the newsfrom Wisconsin and watched the Sunday morning punditsyell ateach otherover the direction of our country’s politics. More than anytime I can remember, we seem to […]

Five Good Answers with Author and Activist Shayne Moore

Shayne Moore is an author, blogger, speaker, mother of three, and outspoken advocate in the fight against extreme poverty and Global AIDS. She is one of the original members of ONE, The Campaign to Make Poverty History (www.one.org), sits on the executive board of directors for Upendo Village, an HIV/AIDS clinic in Kenya (www.upendovillage.org) and […]

Intersections, Faith, and the Safety of Lions

There are special moments when my day job (teaching) and my evening work (writing) make an inadvertent intersect and coalesce into a good conversation. I have mentioned occasionally here that I am writing a book about the Beatitudes and subsequently spending a good amount of time living in those words, imagining Jesus, and the characters […]