Marcgopin.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html When Safety Is Felt: Building Cultural Traditions of Community Guardianship Reflections on recent events Voices from the Middle East the Israeli & Palestinian Narratives of New Story Leadership 2 A Completely Different Approach to the Future of Palestinian-Israeli States, Security, and Permanent Peace Harmony Through Compassionate Reasoning and Confucian Ethics Alan Watts: The Poet of an End State He Could Imagine But Never Fully Reach Overcoming Tribalism: A New Way of Thinking FLAGS AND THE LIGHT LEADERSHIP, A GOOD IDEA, A VERY GOOD IDEA, HAPPY NEW YEAR Remembering the Historic Women’s March on International Women’s Day REFUGEES ARE THE BAROMETER OF OUR SOULS TURN BACK THE FILTH TEN RULES OF ENGAGEMENT ONLINE FOR THE PRESENT HOUR Books by Marc Gopin Who is a man? Ritual as Moral Neuroplasticity:  Judaism and the Neuroscience of Moral Formation Ancient Torah, Modern Brain: The Science of Jewish Compassionate Reasoning New Story Leadership for the Middle East DICTATORS AND OLIGARCHS The Compassionate Cosmos: When Physics and Morality Meet Compassionate Reasoning, the Future, and Reconciliation LEADERSHIP, IDEA, AND EVIL An Open Letter to Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Decentralization, Compassion, the Future of the Web About Senior Males in Congress are Wimping out, while the Women have Become Fierce Warriors A WAR FOR YOUR BRAIN IN POLITICS, AND THE WEAPON OF CHOICE IS LANGUAGE: BE READY Inequality Breeds Violence, Not Guns: A Compassionate Reasoning View The Great Oxygen Exception Compassionate Reasoning is a Bridge Between Religious Values and Progressive Secular Ethics The Impact of Compassion on Human Existence Reflected in Light’s Nature CONFLICT DEESCALATION IN JERUSALEM AND HEBRON: JUST A THOUGHT Straightness & Curvature: Pi & the Majestic Mystery of Ratio HIDDEN ALLIES IN THE CURRENT CRISIS Compassionate Reasoning THE SAUDIS AND IRANIANS NEED TO TALK: AND WE NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN A SPEECH WORTH REMEMBERING THE PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES FOR MUSLIMS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS OF PEACE FOR PALESTINE AND ISRAEL Imagining Peace: The Practical Advantages of an Israeli/Palestinian Final Settlement Making Nonviolent Statecraft into a Self-Evident Truth (originally published on Tikkun.org) Peace Steps – Episode 5 Unite, Confuse, and Inspire: Creating a More Inclusive Atmosphere in Israel Hamas advocating dialogue through children’s cartoon? Not exactly. Compassion as the Only Reliable Moral Force in History: A Historical Critique of both World Religions and Reason Versus the Record of Compassionate Service All young men need radically new educational programs to reduce mass violence Compassionate Reasoning and Ethical Decision-Making: An Integrative Method The Cosmic Ethic of Cyanobacteria: How Light and Microbes Made the Blue Earth A Great Sifting of Religions Religion and Power Moving Forward into the Twenty-First Century: Responding to Religion and World Order Tribalism is Killing Us. Let’s Stop for Strategic Reasons Repetition Is the Engine of Applied Compassionate Reasoning