If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m on NEXT with John Dankosky and Jim Klocke, CEO of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, talking about charitable giving in the holiday season. The show airs at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and again at 6 p.m. on Sunday on WNPR. UPDATE: You can hear the episode here.

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Yesterday, three CCSU students appeared on WNPR’s “Where We Live” with John Dankosky. They discussed their work this semester in the realm of wealth and income inequality, through the prism of race in the run-up to our big Dec. 10 event, Bridging the Gap: A Dream Deferred. There was no professor with them, and no …

Ta-Nehisi Coates is awesome

Last week, Ta-Nehisi Coates (that’s him in the center) came to Hartford to accept the Stowe Prize for Writing for Social Justice. Because I was on the search committee, I got to get right up close to him, his wife Kenyatta (black and white dress), and their 14-year old son (directly to her right), who …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m (briefly) on WNPR’s “Where We Live” sometime after 9 a.m. today with that dreamy John Dankosky, and you can listen here. I’ll be talking about the severe weather, and homelessness.

As you’re reading this…

…I am just settling into John Dankosky’s big chair to guest-host his show, “Where We Live,” on WNPR. The topic is atheism and humanism, and why both are important, and how both will play out in the election season. The guests are Dan Blinn, of Humanist Association of Connecticut; Dan Xenatro, of Connecticut Valley Atheists, …

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…

Hap-py birth-day to me-e-e-e-e-e. Happybirthdaytome. I’m not even going to pretend to blog today. I am, instead, going kayaking. Submit your birthday presents in the slot below, and go out and celebrate your own selves. A reminder: Tomorrow, I’m guest-hosting John Dankosky’s show, “Where We Live” at 9 a.m. on WNPR. The topic is atheism …

The dangers of unbridled fundamentalism (Christian version)

As DickG. says (he sent this link), Mikey Weinstein of Military Religious Freedom Foundation pulls out all the stops in his examination of Christian Dominionism (my old church!) and public policy. Weinstein writes: Proponents of Christian evangelical fundamentalism, or Dominionism, are keen to disingenuously drape their putrid extremism in the false flags of “defending religious …

As you read this…

…I will be nervously settling into the big chair normally filled by John Dankosky on his WNPR show, “Where We Live.” The topic is the effect of violence on children, a continuation of Monday’s show (guest-hosted by Jeff Cohen) on youth in prison. Joining us will be Dr. Robert Plant, of the state Department of …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m guest-hosting John Dankosky’s WNPR show, “Where We Live” at 9 a.m. tomorrow. You can listen here. We’ll discuss the effects of violence on children, in light of some recent shootings in cities like Hartford. It’s part of a couple of shows on youth violence, including this morning’s on children in prison, guest-hosted by Jeff …