The Advent of Peace
Advent renews my spirit every year because it invites new hope for a world in despair, light for a world in darkness, and peace for a world at war. Advent…
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November 21, 2006
Colombia, the U.S.’s Other War
Last Christmas, PBS News asked President Bush about the future of Iraq. “The future of Iraq is Colombia,” he answered with a wily grin. Much of the world recoils as…
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November 14, 2006
Joan Baez, After All These Years
“Come back, Woodie Guthrie, Come back, Mahatma Gandhi,” sang Joan Baez in her beatific soprano. “Come back to us Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. We’re marching into Selma as…
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October 30, 2006
A Weekend with Nobel Peace Laureates
“We will never win a war against terror as long as the conditions for poverty and injustice remain,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu said. “Poverty breeds terrorism. So we should stop spending…
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October 30, 2006
On the Road with “Jesus Today”
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…
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October 23, 2006
Henri Nouwen’s Spirituality of Peace
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…
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October 16, 2006
Jesus’ Last Words to the Church
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…
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September 11, 2006
September 11th–Gandhi’s 100th Anniversary
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…
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September 11, 2006
The Merton-Gandhi Peace Pilgrimage
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…
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September 4, 2006
What Would Jesus Say?
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…
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August 28, 2006