God of Peace, Thank you for your Christmas gift of peace, for the birth and life of the nonviolent Jesus, and for all the blessings of peace, hope and love…

God of Peace, Thank you for your Christmas gift of peace, for the birth and life of the nonviolent Jesus, and all the blessings of peace, hope and love he…

This afternoon, we drove across Kabul, one of the most polluted, impoverished cities on earth with its sea of speeding cars, to one of the many refugee camps where we…

(Dear friends, the following diary notes are being sent from Kabul, where we have limited electrical power and internet connection. I offer them to share my heart-breaking, extraordinary experience so…

Before leaving this week for Afghanistan, I was able to interview some of the young peacemakers with whom I will be staying in Kabul. They are dedicated to nonviolence and…

Peacemaking, to paraphrase Dostoyevsky, is "a harsh and dreadful thing." This week, I'm flying to Kabul, Afghanistan, on a long-planned, hopeful yet modest mission of peace. I've been looking for…

In Seattle on Thursday night, I spoke about Jesus' Sermon on the Mount commendation-Blessed are the peacemakers. Jesus was a peacemaker, I declared, and anyone who claims to be a…

"We citizens have to take the future of our country into our own hands. There's no one to solve the problems of our country and our world anymore except us."…

It's been hard for me to watch the election campaign when so little attention was paid to our ongoing wars, closing Guantanamo, ending the death penalty, Wall Street corporate corruption,…

Recently, I saw a powerful, disturbing new documentary about the U.S. hydrogen bomb explosions in the South Pacific islands, the U.S. government’s campaign to keep the indigenous people on those…