Culture

Belonging

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I’m going through one of those bumpy passages on the journey to belonging.I moved a couple of months ago, and while the reason was love and I feel the opposite of regret, the adjustment to a new community is pushing some ancient buttons. As with many children of immigrants, I know what it’s like to feel in it but not of it. By now, the catalog of my own complaints is intensely boring to me: I don’t know how to meet the people who might belong to my own quirky tribe if only I knew who they were; I’m always getting a little lost; the relatively short distance to my old neighborhood and old friends seems much longer now that I’m on the other side of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. I imagine that this too shall pass, and probably pretty quickly. I’ve moved more than 25 times in my life, so I know the dance.

War & Peace

Syrian Refugees Face Guilt, Depression in Exile

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Many Syrian refugees choose to flee their home country because they feel they have no other choice. But from the outside looking in, they face insurmountable grief as they worry for loved ones who stayed behind. Depressed at their lack of options, resources, and assistance programs, most agree that U.S. military intervention would do more harm than good and instead hope for humanitarian aid.

Religion

Weekly Sermon: Learner's Mind- Your Word For A Whole World

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It used to be that religious conservatives were more abundant than religious progressives, but among the millennial generation- unaffiliated religious progressives are now exceeding the rest. This week’s Learner’s Mind calls for the people to speak up so that we may find one another, and that we may give our word for a whole world.

General News

The Image U.S. Media Refused to Show of Israel's Brutal Occupation

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On Friday, Israeli soldiers threw sound grenades at a group of European diplomats trying to deliver emergency aid in the occupied territories, pulled a French diplomat, Marion Castaing, from a truck and threw her upon the ground. The image below, of Israeli border police surrounding Castaing as she lay on her back, was taken by a human rights activist as other journalists, including those from Reuters, looked on.