The full Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred, let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light And where there is sadness, joy (More)

Kelly Loeffler and the Georgia GOP are campaigning on “nihilistic white noise,” � @ThePlumLineGS ⁩ writes. Nice (and accurate) phrase.

“Take the deal, Congress. Then immediately start working on the next one.” Good take from � @crampell ⁩. The worry: If Republicans keep control of the Senate, they will block the assistance the country (particularly state & local governments) needs.

There is no vaccine that can bring a sudden end to political polarization. But � @JoeBiden ⁩ can make us hate each other a little bit less by avoiding culture wars, focusing on jobs, incomes & economic justice — and dealing with the pandemic. My column

The overlap of #Christmas , #Hanukkah  & the solstice speaks to the universal hope of emerging from darkness to light. Celebrating the spark of the divine in all of us honors the Christian story by recognizing the transcendent in every soul. My column

“We are nearer to salvation in realizing that there is a share of the divine in every man and women, including ourselves, than by seeking to be saved by a God who is ‘out there’.” -Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who respected Buddhism A #Christmas  column

We humans often learn more from bad experiences than good ones. This ought to make 2020 one of the most instructive years in history. We can’t undo the suffering and the death, but we owe it to each other to apply this year’s lessons. My column

“To knowingly pretend a lie is true is, simply put, to lie. Doing that carefully enough to let you claim you’re only raising questions only makes it even clearer that you know you’re lying. Lying to people is no way to speak for them....” —Yuval Levin

“Sedition fatigue: For Trump and many Republicans, betrayal is now politics as usual.” The great & tellibg headline on ⁦� @djrothkopf ⁩’s column.

This is what peaceful protest looks like. Those who joined the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017 were determined, peaceful and law-abiding. They warned about the dangers of Donald Trump’s extremism. They were right. And we see the culmination of Trump’s incendiary selfishness today.