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Sayyida Salme
in Our Time
How she speaks to us today
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The Perniciousness of War
Most lives on earth have been changed by war. I have no statistics, but even your own life probably bears the marks of warfare. Looking back at your family history, you may well find a time when your ancestors had to absorb the impact of war – land left behind, assets disappeared, or family lost – with consequences that have a long tail. Even now, with the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, rising gas prices and other impacts are causing adjustments all over this interconne

Andrea Emily Stumpf
7 min read


War That Is Simply Satanic
In this time of widening war, it is humbling and horrifying to look back and recognize that the world is still so beset with folly and madness. For all the progress that we, as humanity, aspire to make, we still resort to ferocious aggression against each other. Is it necessary? We display levels of force and destruction as though we cannot help ourselves. I write from the United States where the most powerful nation in the world is also the most destructive, where power is p

Andrea Emily Stumpf
7 min read


Our Homo Sapiens Superior Seeking Gene
What makes us so special? What gave us modern humans the edge to beat out the Neanderthals, the Denisovans, and all the other strains of...

Andrea Emily Stumpf
6 min read


The Race We Are In
We are in the aftermath. It is probably too soon to say much of anything, as we take in the complexity, and before the consequences have...

Andrea Emily Stumpf
5 min read


Who remembers human zoos?
Othering: The act of putting people down on the basis of defined or perceived characteristics. Human zoos: The act of putting people on...

Andrea Emily Stumpf
6 min read
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