The more we distance ourselves from our neighbor, the more we estrange ourselves. The more we unfriend people who disagree with us, the more we create gaps and echo chambers and an inability to engage in meaningful and transformative dialogue.
When we choose not to talk about the diversity that defines us, we experience more repression, more polarity and more intolerance.
“MLK did not tell us that love would gently wash the hate away. He did not tell us to hug it out. He told us to drive it out. And this requires action.”
“There are no words to express how simultaneously star struck and disappointed by his attitude I was. But, Gene Simmons got bumped so I could sleep in, and that’s kind of cool.”
I was recently interviewed by my friend Jason Sowell (a rock star in his own right) for his podcast, “Boldly Going,” over at State-Lines.com. We had lots of fun talking about […]
The first call, “What Seminary Doesn’t Teach You,” will be held Thursday, January 28 at 8 p.m. EST.
Joran and Michael Whalen discuss the formation of Integral Church, male rites of passage, politics and the future of religion.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in Interfaith Week on any and every level.
Racism in any form is ignorance. It is a sense of “otherness” (an egocentric/ethnocentric fear of the loss of one’s own values or survival) that is passed down from generation […]
Last weekend, I flew to Radford, VA to speak at the Building the New World Conference along with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Charles Eisenstein, Kurt Johnson and many others. I was honored […]
Joran Slane Oppelt 