Dan Scott
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Reposted by Dan Scott
I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...
Medicaid Is a Middle-Class Benefit. Here’s What to Know.
If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...
“We are only healthy to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Kurt Vonnegut
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“We are only healthy to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Kurt Vonnegut
“And I believe part of being human is a questioning, a curiosity, a trying to find answers, but an understanding that there are some answers that, at least on this planet, this life, this life form, we will not be able to answer.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
February 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“And I believe part of being human is a questioning, a curiosity, a trying to find answers, but an understanding that there are some answers that, at least on this planet, this life, this life form, we will not be able to answer.”
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
“In the house of God’s love we come to see with new eyes and hear with new ears and thus recognize all people, whatever their race, religion, sex, wealth, intelligence, or background, belong to that same house. God’s house has no dividing walls or closed door.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Henri J. M. Nouwen
February 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“In the house of God’s love we come to see with new eyes and hear with new ears and thus recognize all people, whatever their race, religion, sex, wealth, intelligence, or background, belong to that same house. God’s house has no dividing walls or closed door.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Henri J. M. Nouwen
“Imagination is a trust in the generative nature of reality. It's a trust that will be okay. New life, new arrangements, new possibilities.” • Rob Bell
February 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“Imagination is a trust in the generative nature of reality. It's a trust that will be okay. New life, new arrangements, new possibilities.” • Rob Bell
“Is there no time yet to come that’s not here now?”
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life
January 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Is there no time yet to come that’s not here now?”
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life
“Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith.”
From Conclave
From Conclave
December 26, 2024 at 11:08 PM
“Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith.”
From Conclave
From Conclave
“if we read a text when we're 6 & we read the same text when we're 60 and we get the same message, something has gone dreadfully wrong & it hasn't gone wrong with the text.”
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine — From Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Ep. 113
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine — From Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Ep. 113
December 17, 2024 at 12:12 PM
“if we read a text when we're 6 & we read the same text when we're 60 and we get the same message, something has gone dreadfully wrong & it hasn't gone wrong with the text.”
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine — From Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Ep. 113
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine — From Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Ep. 113
“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
• Walden • Henry David Thoreau
• Walden • Henry David Thoreau
December 14, 2024 at 4:49 AM
“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
• Walden • Henry David Thoreau
• Walden • Henry David Thoreau
Reposted by Dan Scott
Remember: in the gospels, Jesus got the most upset with those who use religion as a tool of oppression and self serving power.
You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.
You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.
November 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Remember: in the gospels, Jesus got the most upset with those who use religion as a tool of oppression and self serving power.
You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.
You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.
This.
If our Christianity causes us to say, “see how God can use King David even when he did horrid things!” to justify people in power we like instead of “Where is the prophet Nathan of our time who has been sent by God to call King David out for all his horrid actions?!” we need new theology.
November 20, 2024 at 2:42 AM
This.
Adam Grant says: “The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.” (Hidden Potential)
That’s how I’m feeling about the world. What will the discomfort we embrace unlock in us? How might it propel us forward?
Cheers to finding out together.
That’s how I’m feeling about the world. What will the discomfort we embrace unlock in us? How might it propel us forward?
Cheers to finding out together.
November 15, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Adam Grant says: “The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.” (Hidden Potential)
That’s how I’m feeling about the world. What will the discomfort we embrace unlock in us? How might it propel us forward?
Cheers to finding out together.
That’s how I’m feeling about the world. What will the discomfort we embrace unlock in us? How might it propel us forward?
Cheers to finding out together.