Saturday, April 11, 2020

COVID-19, Liminality, and Easter Weekend

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[Note: at this point, most of the States in the U.S., and a significant majority of the countries of the world, are under "shelter at...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Culture quote of the Day: letting the encounter with the Other set us free

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“The wisdom of the Desert Fathers includes the wisdom that the hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – t...
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Can we be zealous for truth and open to the truth of others, at the same time? Further reflections by Rabbi Hanan

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“So much human tension and conflict are bound up with what I often call the hubris of exclusivity. Too many of us are ensconced in our own...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Seeing through the eyes of the "Other" - a Jewish Rabbi on President Trump's Jerusalem declaration

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In IDC (Intercultural Development Continuum) terms, intercultural growth involves moving from an ethnocentric way of relating to others (...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Culture quote of the day: Maimonides on holding to our accustomed opinions (part II)

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"[People] like the opinions to which they have become accustomed from their youth; they defend them and shun contrary views: and thi...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Culture quote of the day: others are not failed attempts at being me (Wade Davis)

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“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality.  Other cultures are not failed attempts  at being YOU: they are unique man...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Culture quote: Self-knowledge on the boundary

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“Who knows one culture, knows no culture. We come to self knowledge on the boundary” – David Augsburger In IDC terms, the two major wa...