Sublime

To survive, pluralistic societies require citizens who can look across difference and show the kind of understanding that is a prerequisite of trust—who

George heard about the issues, too, and this allowed him to detect patterns in his new patients’ behavior. For example, they all professed to care about “humanity,” while at the same time often being a bit slow to love actual people.

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

Helena Norberg-Hodge noted in her study of Asian rural cultures under pressure to modernize, it is young males who most exhibit the strains of this trend.

“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. The way we see the world is totalizing and unbreakable. We are completely avoiding the problems that diversity and worldwide communication imply. Thus, nobody cares about antique ideas like true or false.”

same study found that 86 percent of LGBT persons were raised in a faith community, and more than “three-fourths were raised in theologically conservative religious communities.”13 Further, of those willing to return, only 8 percent of respondents indicated a desire for the faith community to change their theology as something that would influence t

What we are trying to achieve with this book is a neural alternative that is open to important truths: the central role of the Public in American life, the overwhelming power of corporations in our public life, the predatory nature of privatization, the disastrous reality of humanly caused global warming, and the powerfully negative effect of extre

Notably, there is no record that any Lutheran minister, representing the city’s largest Protestant denomination—or any other Protestant minister—tried to stop the lynchings.

Roughly one in a hundred men (and many fewer women) are psychopaths.