by Michael Lerner | Jul 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, First of all, I want to thank all of you for staying with The New School through the past year of extraordinary turmoil. The pandemic, the politics, the disruption of our lives, and all the rest. I want you to know that The New School is...
by Michael Lerner | May 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this finds each of you as well as you can be. What a year this has been. While the whole world wallowed in the anguish of the pandemic, the Forbes list of millionaires increased their net worth from $8 trillion to $13 trillion. There...
by Michael Lerner | May 10, 2021 | Resilience, Uncategorized
We founded Commonweal 44 years ago. Our vision was to support healing ourselves and healing the earth. We have worked toward that end ever since. Healing differs from curing. A cure ends a disease. Healing is a movement toward wholeness. Healing can take place when we...
by Michael Lerner | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: Many of you know that just over six months ago I had a life-saving surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. The six-month recovery was often arduous. The whole experience catapulted...
by Michael Lerner | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: I hope the new year finds you as well as you can be. As many of you know, I had a lifesaving five-hour surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm at University of California San Francisco Medical Center at the end of August. The surgery and the...