The saga of Jesus careens and rollicks as he faces off against sinister forces of his day. Not unlike the action thriller The Bourne Identity, but without sports cars going…

Last week, Peter DeMott, 62, a friend to peace and justice people everywhere, fell from a tree he was trimming and, under surgery, died. A Vietnam vet and a man…

Last week, at the annual “Faith Alive” retreat in Chicago, we gathered to ponder the Gospel of Jesus from the hermeneutic of nonviolence. And many there raised familiar questions: Why…

Last week, over three hundred people from all over New Mexico gathered in Santa Fe at the Roundhouse, our gorgeous adobe capitol building. There we rallied and lobbied the legislature…

President Obama’s plans to add tens of thousands of more U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are a recipe brewing with disaster. It will bring about the death of more children, yet…

Who might be the greatest living peacemaker? I acknowledge the question is a bit impertinent. It conjures competition, while by its nature, the word “peacemaker” bespeaks humility, equality, warm humanity.…

“As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is flat and dull in times…

The bombing and invasion of Gaza should stop now. It is immoral and impractical; the indiscriminate wounding of children and civilians makes the heart sick. And as is often the…

One day, the nations of the world will beat their swords into plowshares and study war no more, the holy prophet Isaiah wrote two thousand seven hundred years ago. On…

God of peace, to begin, a trove of gratitude. Thank you for the nonviolent Jesus, his arrival among us, his exemplary life of love -- a love that risked death,…