Marvin T. BrownApr 26, 2022Listening to Reinhold NiebuhrA 1966 photo of my class’s meeting with Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary when I was a student in Beverly Wildung Harrison’s...
Marvin T. BrownJul 14, 2021Resetting our American ThermostatDid you ever wonder what prevents us from moving closer to a climate of justice—a social predisposition for fairness? Could it be a kind...
Marvin T. BrownSep 1, 2020What Happens When Fear Encounters Justice?Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” That was in 1933, at the depth of the Depression, and he...
Marvin T. BrownApr 14, 2020Creating a Climate of Justice and Limiting American prosperityIf there is one thing we must, absolutely must, learn from this epidemic is how to accept limits. This is not the land of “unlimited...