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Check out these recent articles from around the web: Universities Are Failing at Inclusion by David Brooks: “Pluralists seek to replace the demonizing, demeaning and dividing ethos with one that encourages respect, relationships and cooperation. Pluralists believe that people’s identities are complex and shifting, that most human beings shouldn’t be divided into good/evil categories, that… Read More Around the Web

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Malala on Our Responsibility to the Girls of Afghanistan

Here are some highlights from our 2013 Millennial of the Year Malala Yousafzai’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture: And with Mandela’s legacy in mind, I asked myself: What injustice is the world overlooking? Where are we allowing inhumanity to become the status quo? The answer for me was very clear, and very personal: the oppression of… Read More Malala on Our Responsibility to the Girls of Afghanistan

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How Public Religion Can Help Stem the Tide of De-democratization

Heidi Schlumpf writes: At a time when democracy is in decline and it’s difficult to imagine people coming together to even discuss the common good, religious people and institutions can help reconstitute the collapsed public sphere — but not in ways that many think of “public religion” today, said sociologist of religion Jesuit Fr. Paddy… Read More How Public Religion Can Help Stem the Tide of De-democratization

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Our Desire to Be Seen and the Source of Another Person’s Gratitude

via Lauren Gilger, KJZZ: Fr. Paddy Gilger, SJ: There are huge changes that social contexts put on us as human persons. But beneath those changes, beneath the impact that our widely variant cultures have on us as human beings, there is something universal inside of us as human beings longing to come out. And I… Read More Our Desire to Be Seen and the Source of Another Person’s Gratitude

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Senator Chris Murphy on the Spiritual Crisis Americans Face and a Better Way Forward

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut spoke to civic and faith leaders at the Center for Christianity and Public Life’s inaugural summit, For the Good of the Public, on the spiritual crisis facing Americans, with so many experiencing angst, addiction, isolation, and a lack of purpose and meaning.  He calls for a renewal of policies and… Read More Senator Chris Murphy on the Spiritual Crisis Americans Face and a Better Way Forward

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