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Negotiator in Chief?

April 28, 2016

Explaining Donald Trump’s provocative rhetoric, a long-time Republican operative was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “[Trump has] always said privately that he’s learned from negotiations that you start from the far end. If you start in the middle you lose.” This positional bargaining tactic is hardly surprising. It might even be quaint if […]

Categories: Election, Justice, Negotiation, Politics, United States
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A Wildly Inclusive Welcome

April 29, 2015

Ever since I first visited Hope Church Boston in the summer of 2003 I’ve nurtured a dream for the church: a dream of extravagant welcome and non-judgmental inclusivity. The seeds of this dream were planted at the Sunday evening Jazz service at First Church in Cambridge where I first encountered a truly open Communion table. […]

Categories: Church, extravagant welcome, Justice, Religion, Uncategorized

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Overcoming Mental Short-cuts

February 18, 2015

In recent days I’ve been taken with FBI director James Comey’s statement about lazy mental short-cuts that law enforcement officers sometimes make. Don’t we all just with less-lethal consequences? It gave me a great springboard for a program at the church to challenge assumptions of race, xenophobia, homophobia, and suspicion of people of other religions […]

Categories: Church, Justice, Prayer, Religion, Spiritual Practices, Violence
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