by Leonard Swidler | Oct 21, 2021 | All Posts, Dealing With Polarization, Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue
Our old wisdom when we lived on a tiny plot of the vast Earth is no longer adequate to deal with the tsunami of experiences and deluge of knowledge that is flooding over us today! We are increasingly aware that our understanding of the world is not limited and static. We must realize that all of our “knowledge” is interpreted and that nobody knows everything about anything. Therefore, dialogue is the path to building a bridge toward peace and understanding of others.
by Leonard Swidler | Oct 14, 2021 | All Posts, Developing Trust, Dialogue, Global Ethic, Interfaith Dialogue
The world is too complicated for anyone to grasp alone; increasingly, we can understand reality only with the help of the other, in Dialogue. This is important, because how we understand the world determines how we act in the world.
by Leonard Swidler | Oct 12, 2021 | All Posts, Existential Wonder
The soul is both an experience of an independent “I” and a collectively evolving, limitless awareness.
by Leonard Swidler | May 26, 2021 | All Posts
In the wake of the bifurcated World War the first half of the twentieth century, the world attempted in the 1950s to reestablish “normalcy,” only to be met with the major paradigm-shift of the multiple upheavals of the 1960s: The Civil Rights Movement, the Second Wave...
by Leonard Swidler | May 5, 2021 | All Posts
Leonard Swidler [email protected] Let’s start with the beginnings and basics, and then move forward to the present—with an eye to the Future, which is rushing toward us with the speed and force of a roaring freight train! Meaning of Democracy “Democracy,” as the...
by Leonard Swidler | Apr 29, 2021 | All Posts
A. You have been involved in dialogue for over 40 years – what inspired you to get involved in the first place? I am the son of parents who were like the subject of a 1930s radio program coming out of New York called “Abie’s Irish Rose,” which was a comedy about...
by Leonard Swidler | Apr 7, 2021 | All Posts, Global Ethic, News
My good friend since 1958, Hans Küng, has died, age 93. Vivat in aeternum! The Catholic Church, which he served so faithfully for nearly a century, has lost one of the last intellectual, spiritual, moral giants from the era of the World-Transformative Vatican Council...
by Leonard Swidler | Apr 6, 2021 | All Posts
THE HUMAN PHENOMENON Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. A Portion Briefly Presented and Commented on by Leonard Swidler ([email protected]) [From my reading of Teilhard’s Magnum Opus: The Phenomenon of Man, 1958 edition.] The nihil obstat (that is, the official no...
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