So here we go again. Another horrific shooting. Children murdered. Families devastated. People online and off turning to one another wondering how in the world this can continue to happen. I will tell you one reason it continues to happen. It’s because many people in this country still believe that…

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” Desmond Tutu Humanism is a set of beliefs that stress the value, goodness, and equality of human beings, emphasize common human needs…

Many of us feel an understandable general despair with the state of the world today. It is difficult to keep fighting for the same social justice causes repeatedly for decades only to see limited progress. And, if Roe vs. Wade is overturned as seems likely, we are looking at a…

There is something about invisible illness that prompts many people to resort to shaming. If you have an invisible illness or like me, a constellation of them, you’ve heard these words. “You don’t look sick” or “ You were fine yesterday.” Somehow it is important to them that we disbelieve…

The German writer, Nietzsche, said “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” What illusions might they have to give up? Some of those might be illusions about their country, themselves, their religion, etc. For example, there are many people in the US…

Over these past several years beginning with Trump’s election in 2016 many of us who are well meaning and white have been shocked by the fact that so many Americans voted for someone who was clearly a demagogue, a white supremacist and just all around horrible person. How in the…

A summary of White Fragility DiAngelo, a white sociologist, spent decades leading diversity sessions at companies large and small. Invariably during these sessions many white participants made it clear, by actions like slamming their materials on the table or sometimes even exiting the room, that they saw these discussions as…