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New Moral Voices

Both Jesus and Darwin stressed that nothing is more crucial for the health and wellbeing of our species and our planet than moral evolution.   Now -- as in the sixth century B.C. and the first century A.D. -- out of an era of global crisis rises the hopeful emergence of new moral voices.

We’ve grouped them here in two sections.  First New Global Voices.  Then Aroused Columnists, Bloggers, and TV and Film Creatives.

With brief description and URL to click and read, here are the kind of new (and older) moral voices America and the world needs to hear more of. And take to heart. And ACT.

   NEW GLOBAL VOICES

1. Andrew Bard Schmookler on reclaiming the soul of America. A remarkable new moral voices in and out of America is that of Andrew Bard Schmookler. His blog is www.nonesoblind.org. The following short essay is a good introduction to his powerful perspective on the political, economic, social, and soulful mess of our time and what’s needed for us to climb out of it. 2/26/06.

www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=191

Others Being Invited to Share Key
Short Views or Papers Here

In each case, a short description will be followed by the URL for an immediate internet link to their selection of a representative “best” for an essay or commentary on their own website.

Hans Kung – the great progressive German theologian whose voice, for the world’s sake, needs to reach out in more languages globally.

Bill Moyers – the greatest living exemplar of the American tradition of the journalist as seer and global moral voice.

Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter – the great living reminders of what the truly moral heartland voice and action for America was and must again become for the world.

Riane Eisler – with books in 22 languages, one of the most widely read and respected new moral voices.

Thom Hartmann – a rarely endowed moral voice in books and via network radio with a powerful sense of the link to our American heritage.

Michael Lerner – same great strengths, plus already national and international impact via his Tikkun magazine and Tikkun community.

Michael Dowd – a new kind of evangelist wedding progressive science to progressive religion whose wife and partner Connie Barlow is an established science writer.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – an internationally recognized leader for the field of psychology and writer with a moral voice that needs encouragement and spreading.

Robert J. Richards – an internationally known historian of science and authority on Darwin’s long ignored moral-oriented completion for his theory of evolution.

Nel Noddings – one of the two most effective moral voices in the field of education in America.

Ron Miller – the other main moral voice for American education.

John Robbins – leader of the “food revolution” and one of the most stirring personal embodiments of the moral vision.

Raffi – the great “children’s troubadour,” a subtlety powerful new moral voice with a global following now spanning two or three generations of parents and children.

Hazel Henderson – the brilliant, witty, and relentless moral voice for global business, economics, and international governance.

Barbara Marx Hubbard – the fascinating experimental visionary exploring the link between conscious and active (rather than shallow) spiritual and moral evolution.

   AROUSED COLUMNISTS, BLOGGERS,

           AND TV AND FILM CREATIVES

Because of its immense power to control the American and global mind the degradation and corruption of the mass media has become one of the most disturbing facts of our time. Yet emerging from both within it and via the internet – reminiscent of the function of the prophets and seers of earlier times – is emerging the counterforce of an unusual new generation of moral voices.

Shown below are some of the best of them, whom we’ve invited to choose and provide a URL to what they feel is one of their most meaningful columns or commentaries.

Andrew Bard Schmookler. Most consistent moral voice among blogs, here is Schmookler’s recent classic on the concept of evil. [URL goes here]

Nicholas Kristoff
Paul Krugman
Bob Herbert
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Maureen Dowd
Molly Ivins
Jim Hightower
Tom Englehardt
Michael Moore
George Clooney
Adriana Huffington
Thom Hartmann
Ellen Goodman
Greg Palast
Norman Solomon