Blog 22 Jan 2019 ‘Preaching Is More Than Words’: Rev. William J. Barber II Delivers Soaring Sermon in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. 'Preaching Is More Than Words': Rev. William J. Barber II Delivers Soaring Sermon in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2022 Words that Got Martin Luther King, Jr. Shot By Martin Luther King, Jr. January 17, 2022 photo above: Dick DeMarsico from Wikimedia Commons (public domain) WN: Saturday, January… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Apr 2018 How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant. By Michael Massing April 19, 2018 illustration above… Editor No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2023 Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers ***NOTE 1: Many footnotes add detail and background to the text.*** ***NOTE 2: The PDF academic version is here.*** WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
15 Feb 2023 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jan 2023 State Terror: Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame Jan. 27, 2023 By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist image above: Protesters gather in NYC’s Union Square Friday night after… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2022 How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing By Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany June 30, 2022 image above: Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2022 Reflections on: How US gun culture stacks up with the world By Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon, CNN Thu May 26, 2022 WN: Add to this the overwhelming… Editor No Comments
30 Mar 2022 Is the digital age confirming Ivan Illich’s once radical ideas? WN: Here’s a friendly new review of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by Robert Inchausti. He is the author of… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2022 Circles of Support and Accountability Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA! Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jun 2021 House approves Juneteenth holiday, sends bill to Biden’s desk By Marty Johnson - 06/16/21 WN: So momentous! And this announced on Thursday the 17th!: The federal government will give… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Apr 2021 The look in Derek Chauvin’s eyes was something worse than hate By Jake Jackson April 24, 2021 photo above: Daily Sound and Fury WN: The Prophets and Jesus constantly call us… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2021 Christians as Dangerously Empathic Good Samaritans January 8, 2021 by Gary Olson image above: The Good Samaritan Painting by Tissot WN: In short: for us in… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Feb 2021 This Valentine’s Day, Celebrate Love as Growth and Liberation By adrienne maree brown, Truthout Published February 14, 2021 photo above: Participants take part in an event organized by Love… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jan 2021 After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love By adrienne maree brown, Truthout January 10, 2021… Editor No Comments
28 Oct 2020 Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir Orbis Books, 2020, by Jim Forest Reviewed by Ron Dart I first met Jim Forest in the mid-1980s when he… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 May 2020 Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’ WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2019 Why this ‘genius’ scholar is mapping out the world’s largest jail system photo above: Kelly Lytle Hernández, who received the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, views prison abolition through the eyes of rebels Fri… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Aug 2018 Reckoning With John McCain Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain. By Timothy Patrick McCarthy Twitter August 27, 2018… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Aug 2018 Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2018 The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2017 Anti-empire, pro-activist … The Last Jedi is as left wing as Jeremy Corbyn The latest Star Wars film is an unlikely champion of the grassroots – and it’s not even subtle about it… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jun 2017 Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas JUNE 2, 2017 by PAUL STREET WN: The review below of… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Apr 2017 Fifty Years On: MLK’s Concerns Still Plague Us, Including Militarism Tuesday, 04 April 2017 photo above: Racism, extreme materialism and militarism are still inextricably linked, and still prevent our society's… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Feb 2017 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Feisty Harriet's Reviews In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Nov 2016 We Are All Deplorables Posted on Nov 20, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2016 An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Oct 2016 ‘Either We Destroy War or It Will Destroy Us’: Happy Birthday, Philip Berrigan Published on Wednesday, October 05, 2016 by Common Dreams | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2016 Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson photo above: 'Whether she is writing of Kashmir… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jul 2016 There’s No Business Like the Arms Business photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. ( Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2015 Billy Graham – Echoes in the Shadows This was written by Bill C. Davis. WN: Billy Graham has been the most known representative Evangelical for the last… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2015 Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence photo above: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 WN: The sermon, preached one year to the day before his… Editor No Comments
22 Feb 2014 No Future Without Forgiveness WN: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, New York: Doubleday, 1999, 294 pp. I wrote this review several years ago. Some felt I… Editor
30 Jan 2014 Restorative Justice SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from… MasterEditor No Comments
Blog 16 Jan 2023 Following in MLK’s Footsteps Means Resisting Christian Nationalism By Nicholas Powers | Truthout January 16, 2023 WN: In the excellent article highlighted below, the author writes: Today the… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2020 The Priority of Peaceableness in a Disruptive Election Craig M. Watts October 26, 2020 General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics WN: The article highlighted is very sobering. Amen to… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jan 2020 Itching for a brawl To interpret the latest round of US-Iran tension, here is some history you need to know by Ken Sehested WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2018 How Does This All End? How Do We Come Back Together? August 1, 2018 by Tim Suttle 8 Comments WN: In the article highlighted below, we are told -- again by… Editor No Comments
09 Mar 2018 They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change with Author John Dear Book Review of: They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change, John Dear, ORBIS… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2018 Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear February 21, 2018 byCecil Bothwell Photo above by Richard Bromley | CC BY 2.0 [NOTE: For a differing view with… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Apr 2017 ‘No Walls, No War, No Warming’: Progressives Call for Priorities Shift Published on Tuesday, April 04, 2017 by Common Dreams Under President Donald Trump's budget, “war wins out”—over pretty much everything… Editor No Comments
