One of the most astonishing, creative and powerful acts of nonviolent civil disobedience in recent U.S. history took place on December 17, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. In its…

"Daily we should take account and ask: What have I done today to alleviate the anguish, to mitigate the evil, to prevent humiliation?" So advised Rabbi Abraham Heschel, one of…

Last week's Supreme Court ruling against California's prison system as "cruel and inhuman punishment" was not a surprise--except in the sense that it was said publicly. Many of us who…

Turns out, over the past nine years while living and working in New Mexico, church authorities have received hundreds of letters of complaint about me and my stand for peace…

I spent Holy Week serving in the little mission church of San Jose de Picacho along the U.S.- Mexico border. It was hot, nearly 90 degrees, with wind gusts over…

Happy Easter everyone! I hope and pray that each one of us can be reenergized this Easter season to welcome the nonviolent Jesus' resurrection gift of peace and go forward…

My friend Mairead Maguire advises those who have doubts about the nonviolence of Jesus to spend a quiet afternoon in their local church looking up at a large crucifix. Steady…

“I never expected much of the bishops,” Dorothy Day writes to Gordon Zahn in 1968. “In all history, popes and bishops and abbots seem to have been blind and power-loving…

When Sarah Palin--a possible Republican Presidential candidate--displayed on her website a national map covered with crosshairs from shotgun periscopes marking the politicians she would like to eliminate, she was, to…

Every year for Dr. King’s birthday, I reread his writings to glean insight, courage and strength for the year ahead. This past week, while visiting Nags Head, North Carolina, I’ve…