Roger S. Gottlieb is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of sixteen books and more than 100 articles on environmentalism, religious life, contemporary spirituality, political philosophy, ethics, the Holocaust, feminism, and disability. He is internationally known for his work as a leading analyst and exponent of religious environmentalism, [...]
Find out more...How do we respond spiritually to the upheavals in the Middle East—to the tens of thousands of courageous souls who face down the guns and the militias and the government thugs to demand their freedom?
Surely this should tell us, if we needed to learn, that spirituality is not just a matter of “fixing yourself before [...]
Probably not. After all, it hasn’t saved the U.S. from having an often aggressive foreign policy and supporting dictators from the Shah of Iran to Mubarak to the clearly wrong side in civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala. When only about half our voters participate in a presidential election, we can wonder just how [...]
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