Commentary

Why can’t we reward and celebrate the people who seek help?

Our role is not to “fix what is wrong.”

Within 30 minutes, two calm, purposeful female Behavioral Crisis Response members arrived at the front gate.

While there is plenty of bad news out there about climate change, Bill McKibben — who founded 350.org — published

As we reawaken to the control issues related to women’s bodies again… a reflection on the tension between two competing purposes. “One is social control — ensuring that people conform to social norms, standards and ideologies by providing services that control those who are deemed unworthy or deviant.”

It was her words “how dare you” that made me sit with my ideas about reproductive rights.

Our gratitude to Bernadine Joselyn for sharing her 6,800-word essay with us about her recent experiences in Poland with Ukrainian refugees. This is an excerpt.

The Minnesota Senate districts that need to be convinced to fund state-mandated special education.

Replacing trauma, ghosts, gossip, and the politics of toxic masculinity with a warmer space of Vision and Values.

Teachers have not had more than a 2 percent pay raise in the last 20 years

I felt so much guilt and shame while going through this typical development stage. I was naturally a seeker. My culture, my faith, and my generation felt very limited.

If I did not want to lose my passion for change — a casualty of my drive and intensity — I had to find another path.