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By Mary
Pillar of Peace: Cross-Cultural Understanding
-Commentary by Mary Liston Liepold
Editor in Chief
I got 40%. That doesn’t make me a racist or a non-racist―just a lifelong learner with a lot to learn, out to explore my own prejudices and learn more about America’s besetting sin. I’m hoping the younger people in the room scored higher, but we were instructed not to share our answers or our scores.
The test (technically a Race Literacy Test) was part of an all-day workshop I took part in one Saturday this month, offered by the Pax Christi …
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By admin
Commentary by Liora Herman
Marketing and Outreach Manager
OK, don’t freak out and start running for the hills. This is not an economics class and I won’t make you calculate anything scary. In fact, the scary thing IS the change.
More and more myself and my peer group, those aged 23-28 with college degrees, are finding ourselves out of luck and facing the real world with little hope. All our lives education and the American dream were drilled into our minds. Graduate high school, get a college degree, and then you can get …
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By Mary
- Commentary by Mary Liston Liepold
Back at the dawn of my passion for print, I read Little Lulu comics while my brothers read Battlefield Action. I read Heidi and The Secret Garden while they read about cowboys and Indians and World War II―still fairly recent news in the early 1950s.
Yuk – war stories. Boy stuff! It felt back then like the earth had a crack down the middle with their interests on one side and my interests―girl stuff―on the other. I did notice that some of the things they got …
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By Alicia
Commentary by Alicia Simoni
Community Manager and Staff Writer
“Dublin. 9pm and the sun is setting … This is my home. Not just for now. Even once June comes and goes it will be home. This will always be home―the place where I began to discover me; the joy, the carefreeness, the intensity, the rawness, the pain, the happiness that is all a part of me.”
I will admit that it makes me chuckle to read this journal entry now. I was 20 years old at the time and in the midst …
