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The Giving Circle
March 06, 2025

Rather than merely write checks to charities they dont really know well, a group of concerned women formed a giving circle which identifies social needs and then seeks out worthy recipients. To see

Modern Wisdom -John Heider/Lao Tsu
February 27, 2025

A Kansas therapist and author, John Heider, describes how his life has been profoundly affected by studying a renowned 2,500 year old wisdom text from China that teaches the art of inner balance. To s

Ida B. Wells’ Battle to Uncover the Truth, Pt2
February 20, 2025

Ida Wells published the first major study of lynching. A close associate of Frederick Douglass, she helped to found the NAACP and advocated the right to vote for women and black Americans. Her amazing

Ida B. Wells’ Battle to Uncover the Truth
February 17, 2025

Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death threats and published widely in her quest to document domestic terrorism against African Ameri

Room to Read
February 13, 2025

After John Wood trekked through Nepal and saw under-educated children, he quit his job as a Microsoft executive and founded Room to Read, a nonprofit that went on to establish over 16,000 libraries ai

The Green Economy
February 06, 2025

As environmental visionaries see it, the future of energy is not in greenhouse gas-emitting fuels like oil and coalwhose supply is running outbut in sustainable, non-global warming sources like wind

Waking Up In Jail
January 30, 2025

Nearly half of criminals released from prison are arrested again within three years. Through that revolving door, they return to a correctional system that is often overcrowded and ridden with violenc

The Lost Cause, Pt2
January 23, 2025

We learn how the Reconstruction amendments to the US Constitution, which briefly protected the rights of the freed people, were undone in the following years by the spread of Jim Crow segergation, as

The Lost Cause, Pt1
January 20, 2025

Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? Has it resurfaced today in the rise of white nationalism, election denial and the surge of anti-immigrant sentiment? To see add

Bob Massie’s Survival Story
January 16, 2025

The remarkable survival story of Bob Massie, an Episcopal minister who somehow walked through one life-threatening illness after another, and whose many challenges deepened his appreciation for lifea