02Jan

Awakening in the New Year

January 2, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some...

10Dec

Holiday Parties (circa 1830’s Maryland)

December 10, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. They are professedly a custom...

09Dec

December 9, 2020 Gil Bailie

Try to guess when the following observation was made: … the more completely secularized public education becomes . . ....

06Dec

December 6, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Reflections on Civic Religion – public expressions of national faith in God This year’s pandemic transformed holiday traditions have attempted...

06Dec

December 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

For if each individual allows himself to be led by his personal whim, and betakes himself to what pleases him...

15Nov

November 15, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Now that our great sacrificial sorting of elected office holders is behind us there remains a residue of uncertainty as...

02Nov

November 2, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before …...

27Oct

October 27, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Approximately, thirty-four million voters between the ages of 18 and 47 have been deprived of their right to vote in...

13Oct

October 13, 2020 The Cornerstone Forum

Over the past three years our annual Fall Appeal for support has been prefaced here in Sonoma County by destructive...

29Sep

September 29, 2020 Gil Bailie

In whatever ‘fire storms’ one finds oneself in these days (and we have just come through another literal one here...