Dehumanizing Always Starts With Language
Adapted from Braving the Wilderness (2017) Chapter Four: People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. THERE ARE ALWAYS BOUNDARIES. EVEN IN THE WILDERNESS. When we commit to getting closer, we’re committing ...
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms Violence often begins by making the “other” less-than, dehumanized, demoralized, or demonized in some way. The violence occurring in the United States, from the capital insurrection, ...
Creating the New Moral Norm
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” ― Émile Durkheim As a interfaith/interspiritual minister and organizational psychologist, I often consider the overlapping schemas of ...
Stop Demonizing
Demonize is a unique verb that affects both the subject and object of a statement. This isn’t a claim of grammar; moreover, it is a claim of human relationships. When a ...
