Some two thousand two hundred of us made the trek to Hot Springs, North Carolina this past weekend for the third annual Wildgoose Festival. We gathered along the roaring French…
In 1981, while traveling in Europe, some friends and I visited Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp outside of Munich. Most of it was razed to the ground, but the original…
Forty-two people gathered at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this week’s 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and…
At the height of the story of Jonah, the entire city of Nineveh, in the heart of the brutal empire, repents of its warmaking, begs God for mercy, and promises…
"Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you." In part two of our story, God sends Jonah on a…
Usually it seems God has one of three directions for us: "Come follow me"; "Stay with me" (and "Keep watch!"); or "Go and tell them." The first is the call…
Not too long ago, one U.S. Catholic bishop announced that we should not sing the popular hymn, "All Are Welcome," at Mass any more. Why? Because not all are welcome…
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Catholic Worker, the movement of hospitality to the poor and public peacemaking which I consider the greatest gift of the North American…
As the long trial of Bradley Manning gets underway this week, I want to add my voice to the millions who stand with him and the thousands who protested his…
Edward Snowden's revelation last week to The Guardian that the U.S. government keeps phone records of nearly every American is shocking, disturbing-and alas, to be expected. We've become a culture…