“If you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what’s so unusual…
The bad news is so overwhelming these days, it’s hard to find any good news. But the Gospel provides it in abundance in the life and teachings of Jesus, especially…
Last Friday marked one of my favorite days in the liturgical year, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For 47, I guess I’m old fashioned, but I love…
In the year 295, the twenty-one-year-old son of a Roman veteran publicly refused to be drafted into the Roman army. As a result, the young man was arrested and brought…
A few years ago my friend Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine launched the “Network of Spiritual Progressives,” a group I joined, to unite religious activists from across the spectrum…
As I follow the regular, dire reports on global warming, I recall my visit two years ago along the foothills of the Himalayas, near the border of China and Nepal,…
A few years ago when I moved into a handmade house, off the utility grid, powered by solar panels, no potable water in the taps, atop a mesa, in the…
This week my troublemaking friends and I might, after several postponements, be standing trial for our attempt in Santa Fe last September 26th to pay a visit to Senator Pete…
Last Saturday, April 21, Kathy Kelly called to tell me that our dear friend, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the 1976 Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner, hailed as one of the world’s…
Last month, some eighty Catholic Workers, Pax Christi folk and other activists from across the West Coast gathered for a weekend of community-building and nonviolent witness at the Nevada Test…