Author: Episcopal Cafe

Sidling up to difference

… Civil Conversations Project continues with the Ghanaian-British-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. His parents’ marriage helped inspire the movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. He’s studied ethics in a world of strangers and how unimaginable social change happens. … explore his erudite yet down-to-earth take on disarming moral hostilities in America now.

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The Winning Pitcher

My guess is that what the young pitcher learned on his first mission was that it’s the very act of getting out of the routine that allows one to see the world in a profoundly different and important way.

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Choosing right

Choosing right. This is not always easy, but it can be easy to simply let things happen, or to go through life half asleep. … It would seem we could do better as a people than to have scenes play out as above, for mere children who did not make most, if any, of the decisions that brought them to such moments.

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