Dan Scott

Medicaid Is a Middle-Class Benefit. Here’s What to Know. If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

“We are only healthy to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
• Kurt Vonnegut

“And I believe part of being human is a questioning, a curiosity, a trying to find answers, but an understanding that there are some answers that, at least on this planet, this life, this life form, we will not be able to answer.”

Jane Goodall

“In the house of God’s love we come to see with new eyes and hear with new ears and thus recognize all people, whatever their race, religion, sex, wealth, intelligence, or background, belong to that same house. God’s house has no dividing walls or closed door.”

Henri J. M. Nouwen

“Imagination is a trust in the generative nature of reality. It's a trust that will be okay. New life, new arrangements, new possibilities.” • Rob Bell

Not mad about it.

“Is there no time yet to come that’s not here now?”

Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life

“Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith.”

From Conclave

“if we read a text when we're 6 & we read the same text when we're 60 and we get the same message, something has gone dreadfully wrong & it hasn't gone wrong with the text.”

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine — From Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman Ep. 113

“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

• Walden • Henry David Thoreau

Remember: in the gospels, Jesus got the most upset with those who use religion as a tool of oppression and self serving power.

You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.

This.

Adam Grant says: “The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.” (Hidden Potential)

That’s how I’m feeling about the world. What will the discomfort we embrace unlock in us? How might it propel us forward?

Cheers to finding out together.