The author is minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin. Davidson Loehr The most famous definition of fundamentalism is H. L. Mencken’s: a terrible, pervasive fear that someone, […]
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The following sermon was delivered on November 7th 2004 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin. Davidson Loehr You may wonder why anyone would try to use the word “fascism” […]
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The following essay was originally published under the title: Why Forgiving Ourselves and Each Other is the Path to Global Justice in January 2004. John Bunzl When we protest against […]
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Dexter Graphic writes: I think this is a reasonable approach which offers some hope of success. John M. Bunzl Evolutionary Biology and the Simultaneous Policy Evolutionary biologists are increasingly questioning […]
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Craig Urda Russell Every man looks at his wood pile with a kind of affection. —Henry David Thoreau It’s late autumn, and when I look out the window of my […]
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Richard Duncan, Ph.D has released an announcement of a soon to be published update to his previous (2000) Olduvai prediction. Sunday, November 21, 2004 The final draft of the Olduvai update is […]
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The following in a summary and introduction to: Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power, by Roy Madron and John Jopling, published by Green Books. Roy Madron & John Jopling In […]
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Roy Madron & John Jopling Over the past 50 years, systems thinkers have become increasingly influential in every field of human endeavour – from astronomy to agriculture, from economics to […]
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The time for co-Operation is now. With the end of oil, we humans must reinvent ourselves and become a 1000 times more efficient. … Peak Oil expert Richard Duncan is […]
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This is a followup to an earlier essay. … We humans are the only form of life capable of understanding. Our ability to understand means that when we made an error, we […]
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