It's been hard for me to watch the election campaign when so little attention was paid to our ongoing wars, closing Guantanamo, ending the death penalty, Wall Street corporate corruption,…
(Note: Last month, I spent nearly two glorious weeks traveling through Scotland, speaking on peace and nonviolence. Here is a little diary from my journey on the road to peace…
Recently, I saw a powerful, disturbing new documentary about the U.S. hydrogen bomb explosions in the South Pacific islands, the U.S. government’s campaign to keep the indigenous people on those…
A few weeks ago, I spent a lovely Saturday morning speaking on “Thomas Merton and the Wisdom of Peace and Nonviolence” at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the…
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works,” Malcolm X once said. Recently, Columbia University Press published an extraordinary scholarly book that proves how nonviolence works far better as a…
This week, the U.S. war against the people of Afghanistan entered its twelfth year. It’s the longest war in our history, but you’d hardly know we’ve been at war, or…
It was exciting to be in Los Angeles over the weekend to join friends in Pax Christi L.A. for their annual assembly day under the theme, “Blessed are the Peacemakers.”…
If you looked carefully at the news last week, you might have heard a report from Afghanistan about how the U.S./NATO forces bombed and killed eight Afghan women who were…
It's hard to handle the profound challenges of Gospel nonviolence especially when they stand in such stark contrast to our culture, our country, our world, even our church. That's why…
[For the last three weeks, I’ve been traveling through Scotland and England on a national speaking tour about Jesus and peacemaking. This is the second half of my journal account.]…