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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Hopeful de-escalation
De-escalation is the key element of peacemaking and nonviolence. Escalation of tensions is the path to war, as we all saw too clearly yesterday. Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated in response to the killing of Maj. Gen. … Continue reading
Facing the Past to Move Forward
Myself, I’ve got to get to a place where I can accept what Stalin did to people in the Siberian gulags, the scale of it. This, too, is us. This is what we do. That’s why I told my grandson … Continue reading
Dangerous Escalation
De-escalation is the key element of peacemaking and nonviolence. Escalation of tensions is the path to war. There have been tensions between the United States and Iran for many years. A significant move toward de-escalation was the approval of the … Continue reading
Fire and Light
Love of and care for Mother Earth has been the focus of my entire adult life (50 years). For those who don’t know me, one of the main ways I was led to this focus came from a vision of … Continue reading
Radical Hope in a Turbulent World
This new year begins with multiple global climate threats. Devastating fires burning in Australia are forcing thousands to be pushed to the water’s edge. Evacuations are occurring. Wildlife is being devastated. Nearly half a billion birds and animals are feared … Continue reading
My Radical Hope
With so many significant and for the most part negative forces at work in the world now it has been difficult to remain focused on the ideas from Jonathan Lear’s book Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation … Continue reading
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Radical Hope 2020
Greetings as a new year begins! Powerful forces at work indicate a number of significant events and changes will occur this year. Most important will be increasingly severe and frequent environmental disasters, which will stress cultures globally. For decades industrial … Continue reading
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The Crow and Visions
Yesterday’s post was about the decisions the Crow Nation made when their culture collapsed as a result of the destruction of the buffalo by White men, as described in “Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation” by Jonathan Lear. … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups and Radical Hope
I’ve been writing about “Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation” by Jonathan Lear. He looked for a culture that had experienced cultural collapse to see if that would give us some ideas for how to deal with our own … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 