Tag: Emotions

  • Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Man’s Struggle toward Understanding and Belonging

    From an early age, most boys absorb the message—whether stated directly or modeled by the men and women in their lives—that to be a man is to be tough. I learned that early. In my household, crying got me grounded or spanked, or both. And, of course, I was expected not to cry about the […]

  • Aporophobia

    Aporophobia is a negative attitude toward poverty that often culminates in an irrational fear of very poor people. It is the plight of being terrified by physical destitution when having to walk by a boozed-up bum. The word comes from the ancient Greek áporos (without resources). It sums up the horror the well-meaning citizen experiences […]

  • Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression

    Our Corporatized Milieu:  From Chronic Stress to Depression

    In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to mood-altering drugs, food, alcohol, TV, the Internet, shopping, pornography and sex. Several decades ago, responding to […]

  • The Only Thing Evil Can’t Stand is Forgiveness

    “Do you know what forgiveness means? It’s a decision we make to release a person from the feelings of anger we have against them.” These are the words of Fred Rogers. Yeah, as in “Mister Rogers.” You know what else Fred said? Try this on for size: “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.” […]

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