By Jay Caspian Kang — 2022
In the face of the looming Supreme Court decision over affirmative action, we need a broader vision of equity.
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People can change how they think and communicate. They can treat themselves with much more respect, and they can learn from their limitations without hating themselves.
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It’s so ironic. A country that was established by white immigrants and refugees continues, year after year, to debate whether refugees and immigrants from other countries should be allowed to cross onto our sacred soil. - Chelsey Luger
Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.
Real political change must be spiritual. Real spiritual practice has to be political. Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Rev. angel Kyodo williams on how we can bring the two worlds together to build a more just and compassionate society.
“No one who has ever touched liberation could possibly want anything other than liberation for everyone,” says Rev. angel Kyodo williams. She shares why we must each fully commit to our own path to liberation, for the benefit of all.
The murder of a family friend changed the course of my life. His name was Balbir Singh Sodhi. Four days after 9/11, he was shot in the back in front of his gas station by a man who yelled when arrested, “I’m a patriot! Arrest me and let those terrorists run wild.”
“The greatest social movements in history were rooted in the ethic of love,” says Valarie Kaur.
After a life filled with transformation, Malcolm X found himself in February 1965 in the throes of yet another.
Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”
Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."