This week has taken me across the world. I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Saturday at the Pax Christi conference featuring Franciscan peacemaker Fr. Louie Vitale. Then in…
With many others, the news last week that President Obama had received the Nobel Peace Prize left me dismayed. Out he stepped from the Oval Office to accept the prize,…
Good evening and welcome everyone, and especially, a very happy birthday to our friend and special guest of honor, Dr. Paul Farmer. I went to college at Duke University with…
There are many facets of nonviolence. We’re just beginning to plumb the mystery, the possibility, the hope of becoming a nonviolent people. But there is, I think, one basic straightforward…
Twenty years ago, on November 16, 1989, I was studying theology at the Jesuit community in Berkeley, California, when my friend Steve Kelly knocked on the door and asked if…
When President Obama presided over the United Nations Security Council recently to endorse a resolution to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, we saw a rare sight—a sign of global…
“When I sit in jail thinking of war and peace and the problem of human freedom,” Dorothy Day once wrote, “of jails, drug addiction, prostitution and the apathy of great…
My friends Ched Myers and Elaine Enns have just published a two volume work, Ambassadors of Reconciliation (Orbis Books), a great new resource for peacemakers and justice-workers interested in the…
I’ve known and admired Edwina Gateley for years, and even had the privilege of speaking at various church events with her, most memorably, a week-long teach-in together in Olympia, Washington,…
In the last few weeks, three laudable men died—Senator Ted Kennedy, Father Coman Brady, and Jim McGinnis—and the rash of deaths has me pondering not only their praiseworthy lives but…