The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1947 when Eleanor Roosevelt convened the first international counsel that would later produce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it was thought that ...
Month: February 2009
Mayor Mandel and homelessness
Meandering through some old news leads I came across a Todd Babiuk article. I needed to pass along his observation: Those who devote their lives to treating the...
Underground man
Across the alley, twenty stories up, the orange blinking Christmas lights have finally gone out. It signals me to move on…enter this year already…ta...
Active nonviolence and piety
In an essay Thomas Merton dedicated to Joan Baez, he wrote, We know that our unconscious motives may, at times, make our nonviolence a form of moral aggre...