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2023-03-10T09:36:31-05:00

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America

Last updated on: March 10, 2023 at 9:36 am By Carl Gregg

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I would like to invite us to spend some time reflecting on the life and legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977). Her story feels like a perfect bridge as we move from Black History Month into Women’s History Month. If this post leaves you curious to learn more, I was inspired to blog about her by two excellent and accessible biographies that were published recently. The first is from Beacon Press, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s... Read more

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2023-02-15T22:53:16-05:00

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“No Fate But What We Make”: Transformational AI & Human Values

Last updated on: February 15, 2023 at 10:53 pm By Carl Gregg

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I blogged previously about AI in a post titled “Immigrants Aren’t Coming for Your Job, Robots Are.” So, why am I revisiting this topic now, five years later? I knew it was time last summer when The Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google was raising the alarm that Google’s AI chatbot had already become sentient. Have you seen the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey? It’s a classic example of science fiction writers speculating that AI will one... Read more

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2023-01-31T12:37:17-05:00

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Unexpected Adventures in Philosophy

Last updated on: January 31, 2023 at 12:37 pm By Carl Gregg

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I wonder if you have taken a philosophy course? Did you enjoy taking it? More importantly for our purposes, did you take a philosophy course in middle school or high school? How about even earlier: in elementary school? Or kindergarten? I’m increasingly convinced that as a society we wait far too late to give people opportunities to formally engage with the really big questions of “life, the universe, and everything,” to wrestle with the many different ways that various... Read more

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2023-01-24T10:27:38-05:00

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“How Rights Went Wrong”: On the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Last updated on: January 24, 2023 at 10:27 am By Carl Gregg

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Sunday was the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the Constitution protects the right to choose to have an abortion. As Jamal Greene notes in his book How Rights Went Wrong, it is perhaps surprising to remember that that majority opinion was signed by “five Republican appointees…as well as the only Catholic justice on the Court” (117). Nevertheless, six months ago in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a... Read more

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2023-01-17T14:14:01-05:00

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The Friendship of Thich Nhất Hạnh & Martin Luther King Jr.

Last updated on: January 17, 2023 at 2:14 pm By Carl Gregg

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929, and if he were still alive today, he would be celebrating his ninety-fourth birthday. I am always shocked to remember that he was only thirty-nine years old when he was assassinated; that’s five years younger than I am. I’m also holding in my heart that January 22nd will be the one-year anniversary of the death of Thich Nhất Hạnh—beloved peace activist, Buddhist teacher, and author of more than 100... Read more

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2023-01-13T20:21:57-05:00

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What Should You Do in This New Year? Trusting Your Gut & Trusting the Data

Last updated on: January 13, 2023 at 8:21 pm By Carl Gregg

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In ancient Roman mythology, the month of January is named after the god Janus. He is the god not only of beginnings and endings, but also of the liminal spaces — the gates, transitions, and passages that are betwixt and between one thing ending and another beginning. As a visual manifestation of this duality, Janus is said to have had two faces looking in opposite directions. So, “Janus” is a perfect namesake for the first month of the year, a... Read more

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2022-12-28T13:43:32-05:00

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Rest Is Resistance: Downloads from the Nap Bishop

Last updated on: December 23, 2022 at 2:11 pm By Carl Gregg

Can you feel the “Wheel of the Year” turning? During this season when each day here in the Northern Hemisphere becomes incrementally shorter, can you feel the inexorable pull toward Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year? The Sixth Source of the Unitarian Universalist living tradition is “Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.” And I am regularly grateful for the reminders... Read more

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2022-12-05T23:24:48-05:00

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Peak Spiritual Experiences, Psychedelics, & Consciousness Research

Last updated on: December 5, 2022 at 11:24 pm By Carl Gregg

John Kaag is a philosophy professor who published a book a few years ago with the intriguing title, How William James Can Save Your Life. It’s not my favorite book on James, but Kaag is onto something with that title. William James was born in 1842 and died in 1910. He has been called the father of American philosophy and the father of American psychology, and he is remembered for coining terms like “stream of consciousness,” “dissociation,” “timeline,” “pluralism” and... Read more

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2022-11-16T10:37:17-05:00

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Imaginable: How To See the Future Coming

Last updated on: November 16, 2022 at 10:37 am By Carl Gregg

There is a scene in Shakespeare’s Macbeth in which a character approaches the three witches, asking them to foretell his future. He implores, If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me…. (Act 1, Scene 5) There are so many ways to spend our finite time and resources, but which seeds are most likely to ripen and which are more likely to wither? Should I quit... Read more

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