Two Ways of Being Western: Christianity and Science
By Johan Galtung Farewell Seminar SCAR, George Mason University, Arlington-VA 6 Dec 2017 • Two basic institutions in Western history and individual lives: Christianity offering Salvation to those...
View ArticleMLK: The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
By Rev. John Dear 15 Jan 2018 • It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many was unthinkable. He had deliberately connected the dots...
View ArticleNonviolence: A style of politics for peace
Pope Franciskus’ Message for the 50th World Day of Peace 1. At the beginning of this New Year, I offer heartfelt wishes of peace to the world’s peoples and nations, to heads of state and government,...
View ArticlePope Francis advocates a journalism for peace to fight fake
By Jan Oberg On World Communications Day, January 24, 2018 – Pope Francis sent out a message that should have created headlines everywhere. It advocated a journalism for peace. The discussion of fake...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Mohammed’s teaching on violence
By Jonathan Power March 6, 2018 What do we in the West know about Islam? Perhaps more than we did before 9/11 but not much. When Tony Blair was prime minister of the United Kingdom he was...
View ArticleHow many divisions has the pope got?
By Jonathan Power March 30, 2018 This present Pope – Francis – is probably the most powerful man in the world, in the round. Stalin once asked when confronted with the argument about the Pope’s...
View ArticleNonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota | 27 April 1967 . (Image by Minnesota Historical Society| Creative Commons) By Robert Burrowes,...
View ArticleNew TFF Associate – Brajna Greenhalgh
Brajna Greenhalgh joined TFF as Associate in September 2018. She says: “I was born in Vukovar, Croatia, in what was at the time known as Yugoslavia. I grew up and lived there during the years of its...
View ArticleCelebrate diversity and create symbiosis
By Johan Galtung May 8, 2019 There is much diversity. Let us praise that mega aspect of our world as multipolar, passive but peaceful, coexistence of civilizations: Anglo-American; Latin...
View ArticleWhy many Muslims hate the West
By Dr. William R. Polk June 27, 2019 Exclusive: Many Americans and Westerners are baffled by the violent rage expressed by many Muslims, but the reasons for their anger are real, deriving from a “deep...
View ArticleThe nonduality of good and evil
By David Loy February 4, 2020 Buddhism encourages us to be wary of antithetical concepts, not only good and evil, but success and failure, rich and poor, even the duality between enlightenment and...
View ArticleGandhi’s killer evokes admiration as never before
As Hindu nationalism continues its march across India, a cult of personality is rising around Nathuram Godse, the Hindu extremist who killed Gandhi. Or, why is Gandhi now killed for a second time?...
View ArticleHow to be an Ecosattva
Photo: David Loy at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Denver. Photo by denver.cbslocal.com How do bodhisattvas respond to the greatest crisis of our time? Appropriately, says Buddhist teacher,...
View ArticleDavid Ray Griffin’s “The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology”
March 26, 2020 By Edward Curtin A Review There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public’s mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of...
View ArticleWhat would the Buddha do?
May 26, 2020 By David Loy Maybe every modern generation feels confronted by some crisis that will affect the fate of the world, but unless your head is buried in the sand (or some Buddhist equivalent)...
View ArticleFaiths, religions and peace
Johan Galtung June 02, 2020 Here is a Table with fifteen faiths organized according to mono-poly-pan-atheism; some might find the table somewhat controversial: Originally posted on Transcend Media...
View ArticleTolstoy and Gandhi: light as darkness approached
René Wadlow September 16, 2020 “We possess a single infallible guide, the Universal Spirit that lives in men as a whole, and in each one of us, which makes us aspire to what we should aspire: it is the...
View ArticleThe love of truth and the truth of love: Bertrand Russell on the two pillars...
By Maria Popova October 8, 2020 In the mid-1950s, as the icy terror of the Cold War was cloaking the embering rubble of two World Wars, the BBC producer and cartoonist Hugh Burnett envisioned an...
View ArticleTerror in the God-shaped hole – Confronting modernity’s identity crisis
“Eutopia 15” Abstract photograph 2015 © Jan Oberg David R. LoyTFF Associate October 21, 2020 “Hell is truth seen too late.” (Anonymous) Why would a small group of people want to crash hijacked...
View ArticleThe peace discourse that disappeared: Go on with passion and detachment
Jan Oberg December 29, 2020 Look at and listen in to three spheres of contemporary Western society – politics, research and media: The word” peace” and related words, such as the UN Charter norm of...
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