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Robert C. Koehler
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Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.

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No Kings, One Planet

The glow of the recent No Kings rally still pulsates in my heart. Some 8 million people across the planet took part in over 3,000 separate events – people carrying signs that said things like “Power of Love, not Love of Power,” and “Jesus was a refugee,” and, well . . . “Super Callous Fragile…
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Lighting the Candle of Peace

This is the first sentence of a column I cannot write . . . of a “war” I cannot win. There’s just no way to condense the psycho-spiritual devastation of an unleashed nuclear bomb into words. All I can do is ask a question that has no answer: What is the opposite of Armageddon?Can a collective human…
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The Tyger and the Worm

As spring approaches, a huge dump of snow pummels the Midwest. I look out my window, here in Appleton, Wisconsin, and shrug in awe. I’m still warm and safe. Do I deserve to be?What is my relationship to this world I’m a part of? What do I contribute to it? Is humanity an invasive species – step on…
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Radical Empathy: A Force Beyond War

Boys will be boys. Just ask the president.At a gathering of Republicans a few days ago, Donald Trump talked nonchalantly about the recent sinking of an apparently unarmed Iranian frigate by the U.S. Navy – in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,000 miles from the Persian Gulf. A total of 104 crew members…