I know we're almost out of time for this week's newsletter but — following on from the note about 'Member Behavior' — I wanted to take a short moment to remind all Members of the Club's foundational commitment to freedom of expression at all costs.
No doubt nervously, the Met asserts its foundational commitment to art history by including two small images of Muhammad; one of them, "The Night Journey of Muhammad," a charming sixteenth-century folio illustration from Herat, in modern-day Afghanistan, shows the Prophet riding the Buraq, a human-headed horse, through the Seven Heavens, amid angels, as men doze in a mosque courtyard below.
Loving your enemies certainly includes supporting the foundational commitment to free speech, and defending the right of free speech, even, or especially, for those who offend you.
India and Israel have seen their foundational commitments to collective welfare reconfigured by a nexus of neoliberal extremists and majoritarian nationalists, who hope to bludgeon their disaffected minorities into loyalty to a "Jewish state" and a "Hindu nation".
In his view, country radio can and must expand musically, while retaining its "foundational tenets," including a commitment to "wholesome entertainment" for families.
But for me, the major component that was missing during those years was foundational love for my body, a commitment to self care practices that allowed me to care for my body as well as train hard to achieve my athletic goals.
The resistance of injustice as a response to God's "justification by grace through faith" sparked the Protestant movement in 1517, and such a commitment to protest continued to function as a foundational and prominent organizational tactic.
He had a fervent commitment to internationalism.
Instead, a renewed commitment to the basics.
"Next is a renewed commitment to partnerships.
