A few weeks ago, I spent a lovely Saturday morning speaking on “Thomas Merton and the Wisdom of Peace and Nonviolence” at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the…

“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works,” Malcolm X once said. Recently, Columbia University Press published an extraordinary scholarly book that proves how nonviolence works far better as a…

This week, the U.S. war against the people of Afghanistan entered its twelfth year. It’s the longest war in our history, but you’d hardly know we’ve been at war, or…

It was exciting to be in Los Angeles over the weekend to join friends in Pax Christi L.A. for their annual assembly day under the theme, “Blessed are the Peacemakers.”…

If you looked carefully at the news last week, you might have heard a report from Afghanistan about how the U.S./NATO forces bombed and killed eight Afghan women who were…

It's hard to handle the profound challenges of Gospel nonviolence especially when they stand in such stark contrast to our culture, our country, our world, even our church. That's why…

[For the last three weeks, I’ve been traveling through Scotland and England on a national speaking tour about Jesus and peacemaking. This is the second half of my journal account.]…

[This week, I'm traveling through Scotland and England on a national speaking tour about Jesus and peacemaking. Here is a little journal account of the first half of my journey.…

This year my summer reading included Carolyn Maull McKinstry’s memoir, While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement (Tyndale, 2011, 301 pp.,…

Last month’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, was another wake up call for our gun crazy, violent nation. We grieve for the dead and wounded, and join with others…