Unity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/unity/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:50:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Unity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/unity/ 32 32 Restoring Civil Discourse https://mind-at-work.com/restoring-civil-discourse/ Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:03:58 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4040 Civil discourse is defined as “a conversation intended to exchange ideas for the purpose of advancing the participants’ pursuit of the truth about the subject under discussion.” Unfortunately, contemporary discourse falls far below this standard. It might in many cases be described as “demanding that others either embrace a view different from their own or [...]

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]]> A Reflection on Unity and Disunity https://mind-at-work.com/a-reflection-on-unity-and-disunity/ Sat, 04 May 2019 14:28:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3289 I recently wrote an essay entitled “What Catholics Can Learn From Buddhists.” A reader responded by stating that Jesus is his “everything,” the “servants of Satan” aim to mislead us, “love and truth” lead to unity whereas  falsehood leads to disunity, and thus Buddhists have nothing of value to offer Catholics. That was essentially it. [...]

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