If we look for politicians who truly are committed to the practice of seeking higher ground we will find there are plenty of them waiting for our signal. How shall we know them, you ask?

It is evident that politics has become a degraded profession. If all politicians were required to demonstrate their track record in empathic behaviors, dialoguing with difference and proving their skillful allegiance to the whole, we would change politics forever.

There is a silver lining in the current economic crisis; this crisis has actually created conditions for a new society to emerge, a society based on cooperation and collaboration.

In his speech last evening, Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for -- reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.