What is Long Looking?
Long Looking focuses on spiritual and financial growth in the context of broader cultural, economic, and political concerns. Teaching, preaching, workshops, fundraising and campaign guidance, as well as conference services are provided for religious and secular nonprofits including congregations and community organizations.
It offers this daily blog drawing on personal reflection and public resources. Comments and queries are welcome!-
Meet William Green
Taken outside his residence in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Steps to Wisdom
“In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth — teaching others.” Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021-1058) Andalusian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. Gabirol was one of the first teachers … Continue reading
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Biography of Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji is Director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University. This leadership program empowers young people to challenge self-censorship and value individual liberty. As a reformist Muslim, Irshad puts moral courage into practice. Her new book, Allah, Liberty & Love, … Continue reading
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The smallest choice counts
Near the midpoint of War and Peace, Tolstoy grapples with the reasons for Napoleon’s fateful invasion of Russia; he ruminates on the causes of war and, by extension, the factors that impact the course of history. In a celebrated passage, he … Continue reading
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Can Prayer Change Anything?
“Ask, and it will be given you.” from Matthew 7:7-11 Why pray if it’s not my will that counts but God’s? Besides, doesn’t God already know what I need? One answer is that prayer doesn’t change God but it changes … Continue reading
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