inspiration Archive

  • Collisions of Conscience

    In today’s New York Times we read about the collision of personal conscience with the attempt of an institution (whether locally or centrally is irrelevant) to silence its expression within the boundaries of membership in that institution.   While many of us have hoped the […]

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  • ‘We Have Won’: The Spirit of the Marathon

    In the year 490 BC, so the story goes, a herald from Athens named Pheidippides, already having run 150 miles over the previous days, ran the 25 mile distance from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens, to announce the victory over the Persian armies. As […]

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