by lepton | Apr 18, 2016 | Power Dynamic
I always thought states refusing to expand Medicaid was racially motivated. This NYTimes Piece gives me more evidence: Gains for blacks were muted because they disproportionately live in states that chose not to expand Medicaid. About 60 percent of poor blacks live...
by lepton | Apr 17, 2016 | Autism Specific, Faith, Power Dynamic
A thing as common as dirt that those in power do is getting people to believe there is something wrong with them (instead of there being something wrong with the system) when things don’t go the way they’re supposed to. In religion when people don’t...
by lepton | Apr 13, 2016 | Power Dynamic
The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, it’s becoming clear the U.S. election — and even more so,...
by lepton | Mar 31, 2016 | Faith, Proselytization Response
One can ask am I taking this bike ride to get me somewhere or am I taking it to get some exercise. One is doing both simultaneously but is usually focused on one or the other. In the same way it is helpful to tease out the components of prayer, the spiritual and the...
by lepton | Mar 19, 2016 | Matters of the Heart, Semantics
From an After the Fact New Yorker article: Lynch thinks we are frighteningly close to this point: blind to proof, no longer able to know. After all, we’re already no longer able to agree about how to know. (See: climate change, above.) … In England, the...
