Across the country, states are legislating an “anti-woke” agenda. Imagine my surprise when I learned of the Texas legislation that would require all classrooms K-12 to post the Ten Commandments. Taking this bold step, Texans are not just rebuking the…
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Poetry: The Romantics, 1966; Main and Flora
by Burt Raabe • • 0 Comments
Big old building with small apartments. Mine was one room, furnished, tiny kitchen, tiny bathroom, I inherited from a Chicago friend. He left his posters — Che Guevara, Malcolm X, a Picasso, and a Miles Davis album. Soc. 101 for…
by Scott Shepler • • 0 Comments
Editorial: Great reads, Sandra — Serendipity, indeed
by Brian Ludwig • • 4 Comments
It’s the little things that make the moments of our lives extra special. And it takes a big heart to fill them with love. Serendipity. That’s what Sandra Dempsey Post provided for readers for more than 40 years all over…
by Scott Shepler • • 0 Comments
Letter to the editor: Jan. 30, 2023: Martyr’s Day in India
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
Dr. Mandar Pattekar’s article in the last Community Word gave a good review of how indigenous and ancient traditions have been persecuted and all but wiped out around the world, especially under imperial regimes. The United States allowed slavery to…
by Scott Shepler • • 0 Comments
by Scott Shepler • • 0 Comments
OP-ED: The Virtue of Hypocrisy
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“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, a seventeenth-century French writer and moralist, meant that people who disguise their less-than-worthy thoughts in their speech and writing are implicitly admitting that there is a…
