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Jun. 3, 2008
Vocabulary Lessons
by Jean Rodenbough
Sometimes other languages can supplement our thinking in concepts that English words cannot provide except through longer phrases. To borrow from other tongues is a way to stretch our own world views and understand what we may not have fully comprehended before. I’m thinking of two African expressions that meet this criteria.
When Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke at a Forum at the National Cathedral last November (in fact, on the day when a group of us were catching a plane to...
May. 1, 2008
The End of Obama-Magic and the Return of Politics as Usual
by Ed Whitfield
Barack Obama's Winston Salem denunciation of Reverend Jeremiah Wright for the audacity of telling the truth eases us back down to the familiar from that magic world where one might be half-black and half-white and where the widening gap between America's increasingly wealthy and the dispossessed darker inner cities is celebrated as progress to be built upon.
Barack Obama calls upon his mixed parentage and success in spite of an unstable youth as signs of new possibilities growing...