To the forgiving victim
What if Easter is not about a vicarious substitution that saves me from a wrathful God, but about a forgiving victim that exposes my capacity for being part of ...
Category: Peace
Those who wait in shadows
It’s 6:30 AM. I’m serving porridge and handing out some donated brown-spotted bananas and some apples that are due. It’s quiet, the holiday season frenzy is pas...
Black Turnstones, the New Year and Peace
When you come to the coast in the new year, we’ll walk to the cliffs then descend to the shore. And when I point out the Black Turnstones picking their way alon...
Declaration of a different reality
Thomas Merton, writing in the early 1960’s, observed: Here is the great temptation of the modern age, this universal infection of fanaticism, this plague ...