In SERRC Mark West reviews Omri Boehm's book on Radical Universalism,
https://social-epistemology.com/2026/02/25/radical-universalism-a-review-mark-d-west/
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"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.
To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.
Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.
It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."
https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/
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Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the fact of cruelty.
✨ Peace arises when we rest in our true nature ✨
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✨ From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) ✨
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Strange! that no one has ever been persecuted by the church for believing God bad, while hundreds of millions have been destroyed for thinking him good. The orthodox church never will forgive the Universalist for saying “God is love.” It has always been considered as one of the very highest evidences of true and undefiled religion to insist that all men, women and children deserve eternal damnation. It has always been heresy to say, “God will at last save all.”Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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Strange! that no one has ever been persecuted by the church for believing God bad, while hundreds of millions have been destroyed for thinking him good. The orthodox church never will forgive the Universalist for saying "God is love." It has always been considered as one of the very highest…
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
While utterly discarding all creeds, and denying the truth of all religions, there is neither in my heart nor upon my lips a sneer for the hopeful, loving and tender souls who believe that from all this discord will result a perfect harmony, that every evil will in some mysterious way become a good, and that above and over all there is a being who, in some way, will reclaim and glorify every one of the children of men.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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In an age when indifference about doctrine is often mistaken for humility, many mainline Christians hesitate to embrace their church’s confessional tradition. For some, creeds and catechisms feel like relics of a divisive past, ill-suited for a pluralistic present. Others fear that to affirm a confe
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