I miss the Grand Old Party (GOP) and long for the day when we can return to healthy and principled partisan debates. (We idealistic hippies sometimes need to be reined in by practical conservatism.) But this election is different… and much deeper than D versus R and left versus

Conservatives want the property values and home equity that come from living in communities with strong public schools. They just don’t want to pay for it.

Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do

This is perhaps the hardest part about today: realizing that our fellow Americans saw all of that; watched all of that; listened to all of that, and still said, “Yes, that’s what we want.” That’s who we are. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

My viewpoint from the field of pediatrics in the wake of the election results. As pediatricians, politics & policy touch everything we do. I see the impact firsthand every day: - The teen with immunodeficiency who listens to politicians demonize vaccines—even though these

My politics are really simple. I just want everyone to have what they need and be free to live according to their own values. I don’t want my religion dictating your lives. I want my religion to teach me how to love you better. Let’s commit to each other and to love.

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” -Dorothy Day, who was born #OTD in 1897. Icon: Kelly Latimore Icons

Which is better for connecting with others' experiences of oppression - empathy or sympathy? Spicy online discussion last night with Southern Connecticut State University 🦉 Center of Excellence for Teaching & Learning seminar on our book The Age of Identity. Christopher Trombly Dennis Shirley @marcbrackett Dr. Tom D'Amico

Our time here on Earth is precious. Remember, life is short. Let's do good things and be kind to each other.

“…the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” #MLK

“God used immoral leaders throughout Scripture, so why can’t God use Trump too?” I absolutely believe God is using Donald Trump—God is using him to expose how so much of white evangelicalism has completely abandoned the way of Jesus.

If our politics as Christians cause us to be more suspicious about how a poor single parent spends their welfare check than we are about how billionaires use their wealth to gain unprecedented access to our nation’s halls of power, we need a grand reversal.

Congratulations to Southern Connecticut State University 🦉 on achieving this prestigious designation. The stronger our universities get, the stronger our state gets. 🙌

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else”. - Toni Morrison born Feb 18.

The Audacity to Believe - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech: “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and

Thanks, Hartford Courant, for Josiah Brown piece on federal $ in #CT--including for the #CASA movement for #children. Email: volunteer[at]ConnecticutCASA[dot]org or see: connecticutcasa.org/how-you-can-he… #Volunteer or #Donate to #ChangeAChildsStory cc: Helen I. Bennett courant.com/2025/03/04/opi…

We appreciate efforts by #CT legislators to enact State funding for the #CASA movement here & continue to work with them toward this goal. Thanks Connecticut Mirror for covering how #VOCA funds are key but insufficient. Story: ctmirror.org/2025/05/07/ct-… #Volunteer to #ChangeAChildsStory

Remembering James Baldwin on his birthday. One of my favourite quotes “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality”