With you, I grieve the loss of life from last week’s earthquake in Haiti. And, with you, I grieve the survivors’ suffering and the slow pace of relief. Most of…

Sunday, December 27, 2009. I left New York City for Cairo on Christmas day, with a long wait in Amsterdam, and this morning at four o’clock made my way to…

My spiritual reading during these traumatic months--what with wars grinding in Iraq and Afghanistan, the failed Copenhagen Climate Change conference, our being turned away from peacefully entering Gaza, and now…

"When a person claims to be nonviolent, he is expected not to be angry with one who has injured him," Gandhi wrote. "He will not wish him harm. He will…

The Gaza Freedom March is truly an unprecedented, historic event for the global grassroots peace movement. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, mass international solidarity action…

Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it,…

President Obama’s speech last week in Oslo, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize, undermined the example of all the peacemakers of the ages. Standing before the world, he defended…

Last week, watching President Obama at West Point, memories rushed in. I was there myself some twenty-five years ago along with a group of friends. We disrupted their open house…

It was the second of November. Five friends trudged four hours onto the nuclear weapons naval base at Kitsap-Bangor, Washington. Their destination: SWFPAC, the Strategic Weapons Facility-Pacific. They came to…

Last weekend in Adelaide, Australia, seventy of us gathered for a retreat entitled “The School of Prophets.” The idea was dreamed up by my friend Tim Deslandes as a time…