A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
The US religious leaders who’ve come together to launch A Pledge for Moral Defiance this week are clear about this: authoritarianism is never the fault of one person alone. It happens when people who have power are allowed to abuse it, and it often relies on the moral sanction of religious leaders. We stood together in front of the White House on Monday to publicly launch this campaign as a way of taking responsibility for the part we’ve played in getting to the place where we are now.
Initial signers of An American Encyclical On Our Authoritarian Crisis stand together in front of the White House on Monday, October 26, 2026.
