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11 Wise Books to Read Before You Die

What would you add? — More than 80 years ago, the poet T.S. Eliot wrote these lines, destined to become a maxim: “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” They’re questions that are more urgent than ever, as today’s digital landscape often feels further…

Reading

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11 Wise Books to Read Before You Die
11 Wise Books to Read Before You Die
Reading

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Jul 3, 2022

“Keep Sweet” Unveils the Hidden Horror of Politeness

Utah still has a “keep sweet” problem — “Politeness doesn’t care about morality, and vice versa. If a Nazi is polite, does that change anything about Nazism or the horrors of Nazism? No. It changes nothing, and this nothing is the very hallmark of politeness. A virtue of pure form, of etiquette and ceremony! A show of virtue…

Mormon

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“Keep Sweet” Unveils the Hidden Horror of Politeness
“Keep Sweet” Unveils the Hidden Horror of Politeness
Mormon

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Jan 17, 2022

MLK’s Faith Crisis Sparked His Fight For Justice

“More and more I could see a gap between what I had learned in Sunday school and what I was learning in college.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. went to college at the young age of 15 and was immediately enthralled with the conversations he encountered there. “My days in college were very exciting ones,” he writes. “There was a free atmosphere.” It was there he found Henry David Thoreau’s essay on civil disobedience…

MLK

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MLK’s Faith Crisis Sparked His Fight For Justice
MLK’s Faith Crisis Sparked His Fight For Justice
MLK

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Interfaith Now

·Jan 4, 2022

“Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not Enough

Too many are falling prey to conspirituality — Ram Dass, famed author of Be Here Now, fell for a con-artist. It was the early 1970s, and Dass longed for a new spiritual instructor after his former guru named Maharaj-ji passed away. One day a friend took him to the basement of her Brooklyn home to meet a woman…

Spirituality

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“Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not Enough
“Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not Enough
Spirituality

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Nov 12, 2021

An Open Letter to Charles Eisenstein About Covid and Vaccines

Dear Charles — First off, I’m a fan. For years, I’ve listened to your interviews, followed your articles, read your book Sacred Economics, and more. I admire your thoughtfulness, the way you envision new ways of being in the world. Like you, I’m disillusioned with current systems in wealthy countries…

Charles Eisenstein

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Charles Eisenstein

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Age of Awareness

·Oct 14, 2021

One to Zero: What Capitalism Ignores, and How to Build the Future

In his book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Facebook investor Peter Thiel argues that founders should build startups that are so innovative they don’t have competitors. It’s best, as the title indicates, to go from zero (nothing) to one (something original). If you…

Environment

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One to Zero: What Capitalism Ignores, and How to Build the Future
One to Zero: What Capitalism Ignores, and How to Build the Future
Environment

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Backyard Church

·Sep 23, 2021

Belief in Sad Christian Heaven Hurts Your Relationships

Forget a future “solemn separation.” Choose each other now. — Heaven is broken, at least as it’s currently envisioned by many Christians around the world. We could look at any number of denominational creeds to see why. …

Spritiuality

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Belief in Sad Christian Heaven Hurts Your Relationships
Belief in Sad Christian Heaven Hurts Your Relationships
Spritiuality

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Feb 4, 2021

My family has been LDS for 200 years. That’s 1/1000 of my human past.

A Meditation on Evolution and Purpose — For most my life, I’ve thought of my heritage as coming from a single tradition: Mormonism. That’s my people, who I am—part of a pioneer story. It’s like this: Six generations ago, my ancestor William Ogden joined the LDS Church in Lancashire, England and immigrated to Richfield, Utah. On my…

Religion

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My family has been LDS for 200 years. That’s 1/1000 of my human past.
My family has been LDS for 200 years. That’s 1/1000 of my human past.
Religion

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Oct 29, 2020

A Response to Latter-day Saint Trump Apologists

Two weeks ago, I wrote a letter to LDS Trump supporters that got far more attention than I expected. The response was almost uniformly positive, but I also received several messages I feel are worth addressing. Why? Because I’m haunted by the words of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer. “Trump…

Utah

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A Response to Latter-day Saint Trump Apologists
A Response to Latter-day Saint Trump Apologists
Utah

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Oct 13, 2020

A Letter to Trump-supporting Latter-day Saints

Growing up in Utah County during the nineties, I couldn’t hear the end of Bill Clinton’s sex scandal in the White House. It was one of the first stories in my political awareness, and the whole thing affected me so deeply that for years if you’d asked me what I…

Latter Day Saints

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A Letter to Trump-supporting Latter-day Saints
A Letter to Trump-supporting Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saints

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