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Mythbust: Dietary Changes to Save the World
From: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062017/china-beef-consumption-exports-higher-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-change Every now and then, a fresh new research article comes out saying that if...
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Updates on my life (Part 1)
A large wastewater treatment plant serving 2.3 million people in Florida Hi everyone! It’s a familiar chorus on my website to remark on how I haven’t written in a while. Oh well, c’est la vie! I...
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Updates on life (including book!) – Part 2
A big part of my motivation for writing is that I really do believe the pen is mightier than the sword. It’s so hard to have deep conversations about complex, difficult, and sensitive topics so I’m...
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Divergent Mennonites?
A dove image often used by Mennonites symbolic of its peacemaking and nonviolent theology superimposed over the Divergent novel book cover. The tie-in to this book occurs at the end of the article A...
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Monks and Mennonites – my story of “discovering” the Mennonite church
Amish carriage In the Fall of 2003, I was in the first semester of my senior year studying Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. It was a crazy busy time, finishing up...
View ArticleIntro to my Book Proposal
I’ve been working away at my book proposal lately. Trying to get a draft done by the end of August or so. Curious at all about the whole process of getting a book published? It’s a fascinating...
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Dialogue and Debate
From: https://www.welovesolo.com/conflict-of-interest-faces-vectors-3/ A local interfaith group called Interfaith Works is putting on a series of dinner dialogues in which folks of all sorts of...
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Israel-Palestine, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jesus
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, wrote an excellent piece for the New York Times on the need to speak out about Israel-Palestine....
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Israel, Palestine, and BDS – Part 2
Screen shot from Tony Bourdain’s show – Parts Unknown – S02E01 In my last post, I emphasized the need to speak up about injustice, focusing on Israel-Palestine and the boycott, divest, sanction (BDS)...
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Nirvana
The word Nirvana means “extinction” and it means the eradication of all evil desires, of all passions, of all egotism, so that the flame of envy, hatred, and lust will have nothing to feed upon. This...
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