Determined pursuit
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we can embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be…
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Too busy being afraid
They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn’t much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn’t grow…
Read MoreInterrupt the powerful rhetoric
The Jewish prophets—and indeed the whole of the Scriptures—are biased toward the powerless. Such a preferential option for the powerless implies a privileged hearing…
Read MoreNever questioned anything
Group headquarters was alarmed, for there is no telling what people might find out once they felt felt free to ask whatever questions they…
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Reverend Doctor Garbage Man
As a garbage man, I probably know more about the people on my route than their pastor does. John Marboe This delightful StoryCorps piece…
Read MoreAbdicate
It’s probably part of my naïveté that I don’t want to put the issue in political terms when it’s probably irreducibly political. Something has…
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Meet the government: Carolyn McNary
Editor’s Note: For the Local Government issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
Read MoreCitizen
It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we’ve been given to…
Read MoreThey did not know
Again, the terms “civilized” and “Christian” begin to have a very strange ring, particularly in the ears of those who have been judged to…
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Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes (and you should, too)
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 20o9, Bill Boerman-Cornell celebrates the virtues of…
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