There is much hope and expectation in America that a new day has dawned, a day of justice and fairness, of true compassion and a new expression of our highest ideals. Today, we should all pray that this is true; that we are about to enter a new way of looking at our existence, at our world; a new way that eliminates the shameful neglect of the least fortunate among us.
Everything must await the coming of its time. You are born into the world, but no amount of anxiety and no manifestation of impatience will help you to grow up. You must, in all such matters, wait upon time. Time alone will ripen the green fruit upon the tree. Season follows season and sundown follows sunrise only with the passing …
g Barack Obama has said from the beginning of this campaign that it is the people who must believe— not just in his ability to bring about change in Washington— but in theirs. He has couched these exhortations in what he calls the fierce urgency of NOW. It’s as rousing a call to the responsibilities of citizenship you’re likely to …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0&feature=related[/youtube] Will the monkeys wake up to a new “Dawn of Man” on November 5th? Perhaps. Either way, it’s a rough new road ahead; a paradigm shift of change unfolding. Prepare to do your part. • •
Shai Sachs: Dispatches from the Religious Left will be released in about a week, on Oct. 1, 2008. The book, edited by Frederick Clarkson, contains a wide variety of thoughtful essays on what the Religious Left is and how it should move forward, including a brief chapter on new media that my wife and I co-write. If you happen to …
More galaxies than grains of sand on every beach of this world. Taken with the Hubble Deep Field, January 15, 1996 Since it’s a lovely morning, why don’t we take stock of a few things that most of us take for granted. Let’s start with some practical aspects of “reality.” Here we are— billions of us— whizzing through time and …
