Note: This large and growing educational site seeks to play a part in this important task
by informing you about the best resources I've found to date (books, articles, videos, etc.) that advance this cause.
My reviews of these resources--the heart of the site--are found in Part II, Sections 4-6.
(See Section 8 for a quick look at all the resource reviews currently on the site and basically why they were chosen).
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For my view that we're living in a particularly dangerous moment for the health of our democracy
see Part I, Section 2 Our Present Crisis and Why Centrism Matters.
There you'll see why I think we're also living during a potentially transformational Obama presidency, which may well correct
the dangerous extremism that developed at the end of the previous cycle and is still fighting to survive and dominate.
It helps to see how this is not the first time this kind of healthy cyclical shift has occurred in American history.
by informing you about the best resources I've found to date (books, articles, videos, etc.) that advance this cause.
My reviews of these resources--the heart of the site--are found in Part II, Sections 4-6.
(See Section 8 for a quick look at all the resource reviews currently on the site and basically why they were chosen).
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For my view that we're living in a particularly dangerous moment for the health of our democracy
see Part I, Section 2 Our Present Crisis and Why Centrism Matters.
There you'll see why I think we're also living during a potentially transformational Obama presidency, which may well correct
the dangerous extremism that developed at the end of the previous cycle and is still fighting to survive and dominate.
It helps to see how this is not the first time this kind of healthy cyclical shift has occurred in American history.
See the bottom of this page for links to my Facebook page and President Obama's Organizing For Action website.
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Pressing Issues for the Health of Our Democracy
Helping create healthier forms of faith and politics
as well as healthier forms of interrelationship between them
are some of the most important issues facing our nation today.
as well as healthier forms of interrelationship between them
are some of the most important issues facing our nation today.
First, there are so many unhealthy forms of faith (religious and non-religious) around us today that it's vitally important to identify the many healthier forms and promote ways to strengthen them.
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Second, there are so many unhealthy forms of politics around us today that it's crucial to identify the many healthy forms that also exist and promote ways to strengthen them.
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Third, because there have been so many unhealthy forms of interrelationship between religious faith & politics recently, a growing number of Americans (especially among younger generations) doubt there can be any such thing as a healthy interrelationship between them.
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The preceding three sections contain the Resource Reviews that form the heart of this website.
You may want to jump right in and go directly to one of them.
The following three sections make up the Introduction, which provides insights into my particular point of view.
If you want to know more about the center-left ideas and values that shape this site before getting into the review sections,
start with one or more of the following sections.
You may want to jump right in and go directly to one of them.
The following three sections make up the Introduction, which provides insights into my particular point of view.
If you want to know more about the center-left ideas and values that shape this site before getting into the review sections,
start with one or more of the following sections.
Click this button to see the purpose, method and conventions of this site; and how it's designed to operate within the important, but somewhat perplexing, advances of our Postmodern Information Age.
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Click this button to see an overview of my understanding of the nature of our present faith/politics crisis; and why I believe principled (not superficial) centrism and deep, healthy bonds between faith and politics are the keys to overcoming it.
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Click this button to see how key parts of my life journey (family, education, professional life, faith journey and politics) have shaped my unique synthesis of ideas and values and led to my calling to create this website.
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If what you see here interests you, I invite you to further explore this website
and join me in the search for the forms of faith & politics which can best lead us to a more perfect union in our time.
and join me in the search for the forms of faith & politics which can best lead us to a more perfect union in our time.
(Click the button to see a listing of all ten sections [including the four Support Sections]
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(1) Capital Building painting provided by the U.S. Senate Historical Office
(2) Abrahamic Religions symbol (Created by Tinette user of Italian Wikipedia.) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons