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Bandaging our wounds, mourning our dead and loving our enemies
I’m away from my usual haunts on work-related duties but the news sites have plenty of articles about the horrible bombings in London; there is no need for yet another list. It is always tragic to see...
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Of Floods and Prophets
The tragedies were reflections not on the power of nature but on the power of our human disregard for one another. When the ramparts of New Orleans burst and flooded its streets and homes, I was at a...
View ArticleNeat idea: postcard for World Peace
A project from Estonia, a “blog of postcards for world peace”:http://postcardworldpeace.blogspot.com. From the site: bq. The idea is simple: Send us a postcard from your country/city (or any postcard...
View ArticleWords and reason fail when faced with such horror
It’s hard to know what to say about yesterday’s horrific massacre at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people (at latest count) in two separate incidents. Is this an indictment of an American...
View ArticleThe peace of Christ for those with ears to hear
Over on Quaker Oats Live, Cherice is fired up about taxes again and proposing a peace witness for next year: My solution: Quakers, Mennonites, Brethren, and whomever else wants to participate refuses...
View ArticleResponsible Journalism and the Flim-Flam Show of Insider Loudmouths
Bill Moyers, a recently-ousted PBS journalist and the elder statesman of responsible journalism “recently gave a great speech on media...
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Grief at the Asian Tragedies
Our grief goes out to the ever-higher number of known victims of the earthquake and tsuamis in southern Asia. Nonviolence isn’t just protesting politicians, it’s also about supporting our brothers and...
View ArticleBulldozing the U.N.
President Bush has nominated a “foe of the United Nations to be its U.S. ambassador”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13790-2005Mar7.html. Ten years ago he declared: “There’s no such...
View ArticleHoward Zinn: The Scourge of Nationalism
Howard Zinn, one of our favorite progressive historians looks at the tool of nationalism in this month’s _Progressive_: bq. Is not nationalism–that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce...
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