← 1) Do for yourself ... Home 3) Get your hands dirty.→ John C. Dorhauer’s “An Open Letter to White Men in America” begins: Dear White Men, You are persons of privilege. You didn’t earn it. This distresses me far less today than it did when I first read it. Maybe I’ve become more comfortable with having things I don’t deserve. More likely, I’ve lost all interest in whether people have things they don’t deserve or deserve things they don’t have. I encourage you to lose all i

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot save us. • Hell has an exit. ———— ♦ ———— Rationalists insist that love doesn’t matter. Neither does hope. Neither does joy. “Rational” and “rationality” refer to the activity of reason. Well and good. “Rationalist” and “rationalism” refer instead to the dogma that one’s affect ought not be allowed to inform or influence one’s thinking. This i