Parker J. Palmer Parker J. Palmer (born 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. Read full biography of Parker Palmer →
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs:... →
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I... →
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of... →
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate... →
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us... →
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a... →
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the... →
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know... →
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have... →
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted... →
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on... →
Parker J. Palmer Parker J. Palmer (born 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change.