Mercy is an old word
This morning at Credo, a homeless person obviously suffering the mental and physical strafing of street life, stole in and immediately and determinedly began to...
Category: Violence
Martin Luther King’s call beyond ‘I have a dream’
Here, comfortable in my condo reading “I Have a Dream,” I feel good. I can celebrate Martin Luther King Day as though it’s a piece of packaged...
Lamentations and poetry’s high calling
Perhaps it’s this illness, but my mind is a windowless basement. At the moment, a bit feverish, pallid, shaky—on the broader realm, the memory for spellin...
Remembering all victims of war
Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find ...