Healing the Heart of Democracy : The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

from mitchellray

American democracy is under severe threat according to Parker Palmer. The threat does not come from outer forces or big business or incompetent government. The danger to America's democracy comes from its own citizens. Our fear of each other, our differences, and our future is unraveling the civi...

from JerryColonna

I love Parker Palmer. I love everything I've read by him (and, as many folks know, I especially love his Let Your Life Speak). This book is different. And yet it's also part of a deeper theme...what happens when we live a heart-centered life...this time in the more public arenas of our society. I...

from kaulsu

I was disappointed. Parker doesn't truly seem to want to heal anything as much as he wants everyone to buy into a liberal point of view. I was hoping to find a way to talk to "those others" on the right. A way to understand the fundamentalists who think differently than I do. How to have a true c...

from mitchellray

American democracy is under severe threat according to Parker Palmer. The threat does not come from outer forces or big business or incompetent government. The danger to America's democracy comes from its own citizens. Our fear of each other, our differences, and our future is unraveling the civi...

from JerryColonna

I love Parker Palmer. I love everything I've read by him (and, as many folks know, I especially love his Let Your Life Speak). This book is different. And yet it's also part of a deeper theme...what happens when we live a heart-centered life...this time in the more public arenas of our society. I...