For years now I’ve been crisscrossing the country like a new-fangled, post-modern, itinerant preacher, speaking to tens of thousands annually about the Gospel of peace. The past week was no…
September 21st marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Henri Nouwen, one of our most popular writers on the spiritual life. A man of prodigious output, he produced a…
This past spring, I received an invitation to meet the organizer of the National Prayer Breakfast, an evangelical Christian organization that brings together the president, members of Congress and the…
For the last five days, some fifty of us walked more than fifty miles; we went from Thomas Merton's hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani to downtown Louisville. There on…
The year has turned again; September 11th approaches. This year it marks not only the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, but the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of…
The other day, my friend Jack Marth said to me on the phone, "I wonder what Jesus would have to say about the U.S. government, about what the Bush Administration…
The U.S. war on Iraq goes on unabated. Ordinary people die every day by the gruesome violence provoked by our military presence. Our war over the last three years has…
The high desert of New Mexico, where I live, is one of the most beautiful places in the country, with its red mesas, fields of sagebrush, Sangre de Cristo mountains…
The birthplace of the nuclear bomb looks remarkably similar to some hill towns in Iraq, according to peace activist Kathy Kelly. Except those towns don't have electricity, Kelly observed as…