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Truth, Reconciliation, and Occupation

Posted on November 6, 2011November 5, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Truth, Reconciliation, and Occupation on Blogcritics. Image courtesy of Wikimedia A literal chill has recently settled over the Occupy Wall Street protests even as the movem... Read More

We All Have Our Choice

Posted on October 31, 2011November 2, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

The participation of religious folk in the various “occupations” springing up throughout the U.S. is receiving increasing attention. Jonathan Oskins, writing for State of Formation, provid... Read More

Hunger Games

Posted on October 17, 2011October 27, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Hunger Games on Blogcritics. In Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games, youth are forced to fight to the death as entertainment for the ruling elite. While the titl... Read More

U.S. Actor Rainn Wilson talks about persecution of Bahá’í Students in Iran

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Ben Schewel

The following is a link to a beautiful and moving video in which U.S. actor Rainn Wilson, himself a member of the Baha’i Faith, talks about the persecution of Baha’i students in Iran and t... Read More

A War Against Knowledge

Posted on September 27, 2011September 26, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

This Article was first published as A War Against Knowledge on Blogcritics. Writing in The Huffington Post, Nobel Laureates Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos-Horta note: Freedom of education and freedom of ... Read More

Book Review — “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness”

Posted on July 28, 2011August 5, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Book Review: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander on Blogcritics. I thought that I understood racism. After reading Michelle Alexander’s, The New Jim Crow: Mass Inca... Read More

I Know I’ve Been Changed

Posted on July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as I Know I’ve Been Changed on Blogcritics. In 1987, a black man named William Roberts was concerned about the state of black men in America. Headlines at the time raised... Read More

Abstraction and Fragmentation: Thinking Towards a New World Order 2:

Posted on July 10, 2011July 11, 2011 by Ben Schewel

My purpose in this post is to describe the fragmentary pattern of thought, yet before I can do so I must examine what I call abstractive thinking, as fragmentary thinking is one of many kinds of abstr... Read More

The Soul of Unemployment

Posted on July 6, 2011July 10, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Previously published at Baha’i Thought Reading an editorial by Paul Krugman this morning got me thinking. Here’s a taste of it: “More than three years after we entered the worst econ... Read More

How Does It Feel to Be a Question?

Posted on June 27, 2011June 27, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as How Does It Feel to Be A Question? on Blogcritics. I wrote recently that young Baha’is in Iran are denied the experience of graduating from college taken for granted b... Read More