by Michael Lerner | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
People see Pope Francis in different ways. For those concerned with climate change, the environment, poverty and justice, he is an astonishing moral force. For those concerned with gay marriage, abortion rights, making women priests, and child-abuse, he is a...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 31, 2015 | Learning, Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, Often I write to you about things that interest me — like my last post on whether beauty will save the world. I rarely write to you about New School conversations. But let’s look at seven recent TNS conversations: Actor and Zen...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was writing you a despairing note about the state of the world when I decided to offset the gloom by quoting Dostoevsky’s beautiful line: “Beauty will save the world.” I Googled the quote to be sure I got it right and found this elegant post: Ravi Bhoraskar,...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 1, 2015 | Learning, Uncategorized
I’ve been looking back on eight years of The New School. When we started in 2007, I thought we’d mostly tape phone conversations. Then it turned out that people liked to hear the conversations live. At first a dozen or so people would turn up. Over eight...
by Michael Lerner | May 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande, MD This is a book about the modern experience of mortality— about what it’s like to be creatures who age and die, how medicine has changed the experience and how it hasn’t. . . . Lacking a coherent...
by Michael Lerner | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world,” Joseph Campbell wrote. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. It is a hard saying, not an easy one. It reflects a great truth passed down for millennia. In...
