{"id":19478,"date":"2020-11-11T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19478"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:29:26","slug":"a-love-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19478","title":{"rendered":"A Love Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Transforming Power of\nLove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A\nLove Ethic<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, \u202fNovember 11,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFT0zoKQWaM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Because\nof my background, my language about love is often biblical, theological,\npsychological, and personal. While these are necessary and helpful frames, they\ncertainly aren\u2019t the only ones we should use. bell hooks (sic), a Black\nfeminist scholar and activist, suggests how truly living by a \u201clove ethic\u201d\ncould bring about much needed societal change. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Culturally,\nall spheres of American life\u2014politics, religion, the workplace, domestic\nhouseholds, intimate relations\u2014should and could have as their foundation a love\nethic. The underlying values of a culture and its ethics shape and inform the\nway we speak and act. A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to\nbe free, to live fully and well. . . . Individuals who choose to love can and\ndo alter our lives in ways that honor the primacy of a love ethic. We do this\nby choosing to work with individuals we admire and respect; by committing to\ngive our all to relationships; by embracing a global vision wherein we see our\nlives and our fate as intimately connected to those of everyone else on the\nplanet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commitment\nto a love ethic transforms our lives by offering us a different set of values\nto live by. In large and small ways, we make choices based on a belief that\nhonesty, openness, and personal integrity need to be expressed in public and\nprivate decisions. . . . Living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty and a\ncommitment to sustained bonds over material advancement. While careers and\nmaking money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing\nand nurturing human life and well-being. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embracing\na love ethic means that we utilize all the dimensions of love\u2014\u201ccare,\ncommitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge\u201d\u2014in our everyday\nlives. We can successfully do this only by cultivating awareness. Being aware\nenables us to critically examine our actions to see what is needed so that we\ncan give care, be responsible, show respect, and indicate a willingness to\nlearn. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domination\ncannot exist in any social situation where a love ethic prevails. . . . When\nlove is present the desire to dominate and exercise power cannot rule the day.\nAll the great social movements for freedom and justice in our society have\npromoted a love ethic. Concern for the collective good of our nation, city, or\nneighbor rooted in the values of love makes us all seek to nurture and protect\nthat good. If all public policy was created in the spirit of love, we would not\nhave to worry about unemployment, homelessness, schools failing to teach\nchildren, or addiction. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To live our lives based on the principles of a love ethic (showing care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate), we have to be courageous. Learning how to face our fears is one way we embrace love. Our fear may not go away, but it will not stand in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/62691b87-4695-48f5-9402-bbd9c68a2c12\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transforming Power of Love A Love Ethic Wednesday, \u202fNovember 11, 2020 Because of my background, my language about love is often biblical, theological, psychological, and personal. While these are necessary and helpful frames, they certainly aren\u2019t the only ones we should use. bell hooks (sic), a Black feminist scholar and activist, suggests how truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19482,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions\/19482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}