by Michael Lerner | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this letter finds you well. You will soon see the Commonweal Year End Report. This is my personal letter to you. I’ve organized the letter around seven topics: What Oren Slozberg has brought to Commonweal. The 212th Cancer Help Program...
by Michael Lerner | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, How do we live in this time? It is a question I ask myself again and again. For many, there is little choice. It is a time of such anguish for uncounted millions around the world. But what of those of us who have a sufficiency? Food, a roof...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: I hope this finds you well. I’ve been thinking about sources of hope in the face of COVID and the polycrisis. **** COVID COVID isn’t going away any time soon. In fact COVID will be with us for the foreseeable future. I’ve...
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...