Browsing Tag: Cooperation

In human endeavors, we all have a personal and collective stake, and therefore we must all contribute.

Today the massive too-big-to-fail banks are hardly doing George Bailey-style loans at all. They are not interested in community lending. They are doing their own proprietary trading—trading for their own accounts—which generally means speculating against local interests.

In a perfect world, it is often said, people of all faiths would embrace each other and celebrate their common humanity.

A Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, he has four honorary degrees. His autobiography is required freshman reading on 11 college campuses. He runs a nonprofit organization with 31 employees and a budget of $4 million, and he was tapped by the White House as a key architect of an April initiative by President Obama.

What if other faiths worked together instead of working separately? What if the combined forces of social activists across faith lines worked on a social issue like homelessness?

"Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides, but do not break the human heart, as it is there that God resides." -- Shaykh Bulleh Shah