Tuesday,April 4, 2023: Twice a week we bring you informational, educational, inspirational, and entertaining messages. This edition showcases the following topic:

• Tuesday Information and Education – If you're thinking about hope for humanity, the subtitle of the Transforming Leadership curriculum —The Promise of Our Better Angels — echoes a relevant phrase from Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in 1861. In a desperate and ultimately futile attempt to stave off civil war over the ancient institution of slavery, Lincoln closed that address as follows: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory . . . will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
• Seven score and ten years later, psychologist Steven Pinker borrowed that phrase for the title of his monumental 2011 study, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker marshaled an enormous array of historical and psychological evidence chronicling the human struggle to emerge from savagery, barbarism, and a blinkered focus on survival and security to enlightened civilization, democratic social organization, and global concern for all of humanity. Find out more at: https://ourbetterangels.org/the-promise-of-our-better-angels

• Coming Up on Friday – Inspiration and Fun.

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