“There are two ways for the heart to break: apart into many shards like a fragment grenade, or open into greater capacity so we can hold life’s inevitable tensions creatively, not destructively.” These words from educator and activist Parker Palmer point us toward a vision that he calls the “politics of the broken hearted.” Palmer continues: When we hold...tensions and we don't know how to hold them, the heart explodes like a hand grenade. And we sometimes want to throw that hand … [Read more...]