I’m not an expert on viruses, but I do have a lifetime of experience in public health. Public health is about the health of all of us, as a community. Public health does not deny our innate need to attend to our own safety and survival, but it also calls us to do more than that: to act on behalf of the common good.
Last week I accompanied the Voices of the Earth (formerly named the Women’s World Music Choir) on their spring break tour in Puerto Rico.
Last week I was in Arusha, Tanzania to lead a research team meeting at Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology (NMAIST). I’ve been doing collaborative research on the health of mothers and children in Tanzania since 1992.
Inclusion is not a quick or easy journey. One public statement — by me or our governor — doesn’t complete the work. More than any formal statement, it is the ensuing conversations, relationships and deepened commitments that create inclusive community — the kind of solidarity that Pope John Paul II defined this way: “We are all really responsible for all.”
During our King Celebration 2020 this week, we were asked: "What is your work?" My work is to collaboratively lead Goshen College to be hospitable and just for all of our students and employees, regardless of race, first language or nation, skin color or any other appearance, gender, or sexual identity.
We all know the feeling when we’ve been part of a conversation that really mattered — one in which people were fully present, spoke honestly and clearly, and where ideas were formed and tested. We need more of that — not only at Goshen College and all of our places of work, but also in our churches and communities.
I am ready for a new word for the new year, and it will be embrace.
Practicing gratitude makes us feel good, but science also shows that people who practice gratitude get better at coping with stress, seek more social support, respond to negative events more positively and become more patient.
Wonder is not found in what we know. It is found at the edges of our knowing, with one foot in and one foot out.
The very low unemployment figures in Indiana make the time and financial investment in a college education harder for some students and their families to accept. The opportunity costs are very real! So how do we make the case for college in this economy and this region? Here are my 5 arguments.
