City of Brotherly Love Leads for Peace Day, 9/21
By Lisa DiNardo Parker, founder of Peace Day Philly
September 21 is the International Day of Peace, or Peace Day.
Peace Day Philly, now in it's 6th year, encourages people and organizations to get involved in Peace Day as a global day of local opportunity. Like other major cities, Peace Day Philly presents events over the course of a week - some collaborative in nature, some offered by…
Interview | Leonardo Boff, a founder of liberation theology
By Leonardo Boff, via "Liberation Ecology," Great Transition Initiative (August 2016) and Tellus Institute
Theology can play a central role in defining the moral fiber of a society, including its commitment to poverty alleviation and stewardship of Earth. Allen White, Senior Fellow at Tellus Institute, talks with Leonardo Boff, a founder of liberation theology, about the origins of the…
Book | Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation
Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation, David Nicol. State University of New York Press (http://www.sunypress.edu), 2016. 246 Paper, Foreword by Christopher Bache
A Kosmos featured book for the Sacred Season
by Elizabeth Jennings
What if consciousness-based practices—meditation, ritual, prayer—could do more than induce calm or “charge the batteries”…
Collective Trauma: The Morphogenetic Field of Fear
By Dr. Dieter Duhm via Uplift Connect
The following is an excerpt from the book Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love.
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships. Behind the atrocious massacres, which are currently epitomized in Syria, hides a collective soul pattern, which seems to be consistent on all continents. It is a…
Peace and Collective Healing
Dear Reader,
What is peace? The word has become so worn. Is it a state of being, a process, a resolution? The promise of peace seems more elusive these days than ever. Peace Day is coming up, so what is it we are really asked to do?
Maybe the reason peace seems so out of reach is that we have failed to look deeply enough at the sources of nonpeace. It's one thing to achieve some sense of…
Excerpt | Hearing the Cries of the World
By Mark Nepo, from Parabola.org
EXCERPT
"...But she kept rocking the little one, certain the world would end if she put him down. Without her knowing, she began to hold the broken that would fill eternity, long before they would suffer: the stillborn, the betrayed, the sickly, the murdered, the thousands left to mourn. Letting them move through her began to open her heart like a lotus…
Imagine All the People: Advancing a Global Citizens Movement
How to change the world? Those concerned about the dangerous drift of global development are asking this question with increasing urgency. Dominant institutions have proved too timorous or too venal for meeting the environmental and social challenges of our time. Instead, an adequate response requires us to imagine the awakening of a new social actor: a coordinated global citizens movement (GCM)…
Rio and the Criminalization of Poverty
by Alex Besser, Alix Vadot, Ava Rose Hoffman, Eli Nemzer, Nashwa Al-sharki, for Rio On Watch
The criminalization of poverty is a global phenomenon of mistreatment and prejudice faced by the poorest members of society due to their economic circumstances, often influenced by and perpetuating racism and other forms of discrimination. It can manifest itself in various forms, with common examples…
How to Save the World (version 0.9)
What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action
Selected excerpts from a 2009 article by Dave Pollard
It's been a couple of years since I tried to provide a comprehensive answer to the question of many of my readers: “What can I do?” in light of all the suffering in this world, and the looming collapse, some time in this century, of our unsustainable, teetering civilization. Past versions of…
Our Human Family and Global Citizenship
Dear Reader,
Two images keep resurfacing in the waters of my thoughts: Usain Bolt, the fastest man on Earth, flashing a dazzling smile to the camera during his 100-meter semifinal race, and Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old survivor of an Aleppo airstrike, sitting unblinking and dazed in an ambulance.
Certainly, the Olympics bring us together as a human family and uplift us. For one brief…