Category: Pedro S. Silva II
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Hear the (W)hole Story
Why is it that so many people see other perspectives and experiences as a threat? And why is it that we also tend to fill in holes and gaps in stories with whatever the path of least resistance offers us? As a person with a philosophical bent, I can admit that in most cases, I…
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Save the Future With Your Present Conversations
If you are part of a community of folks as small as your family or as large as a megachurch and you aren’t challenging yourselves in your conversations your communications are the equivalent of standing water. And elementary science tells us what happens to standing water. The conversations that we participate in are supposed to…
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Love is God (Complete and Utter Joy)
Sometimes I feel like I have to apologize to anyone burdened by the belief that God’s essence is anything other than Love. Even though I consciously know I’m not responsible for centuries of teachings to the contrary, when I see so many people burdened by the lie that God is just looking for ways to…
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A Box as Big as the Universe
My uncle, Vernon Kitabu Turner, can’t be put in a box. And it is time that I thank God for him. He just loves God and has ceaselessly sought to understand the Spirit that he has witnessed as active his entire life by any means necessary. When I was younger, people told me that I…
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Ending Racism: How to Change the World in One Generation
The other morning I was feeling the weight of trying to articulate possibilities in the face of polarities. I prayed for some guidance on how to reimagine some of the conversations we’re having on race. Next thing you know, I get this email from my new friend Justin Michael Williams inviting me to preview an…
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Unum (One)
If there was ever a moment to be in wonder about Oneness, it is now. How can we go from division to a unified vision?
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Two Ideas One Mind: The Vices and Virtues of Cognitive Dissonance
I sometimes wonder if hypocrisy comes from a person’s inability to harmonize the seemingly divergent awarenesses that arise as a result of them experiencing cognitive dissonance. Take for example someone like the segregationist Senator, Strom Thurmond who, despite adamantly advocating against civil rights for Black Americans and pushed for state’s rights to impose segregation, was…
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Hearing the Inner Voice of God
In this conversation with Bishop Carlton Pearson, we talk about our experiences listening to the Voice of God, Forgiveness, and other subjects related to faith and Living.
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Silva Linings Episode 5 – Do More Nothing
Often in life we gauge who we believe ourselves to be on “what we do” at the expense of who we are.
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Silva Linings Episode 4 – There is More Than Enough
We have been taught that there is not enough for everyone. It is not true.
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