Peacemaking: The Work of Heart, Hands, and Head

Our work is enriched when we know the poems, the paintings, the voices of those with whom we stand in solidarity. By knowing the words and phrases with which others cry, celebrate, and pray, we enter the holy place where we become more than our small selves. Read more [...]

The Daunting Dance of Peacemaking: From the Margins to our Sacred Center

We must learn that there is a time to march and a time to meditate, a time to protest and a time to pray, a time to stand in stand in solidarity with others and a time to sit in solitude. Read more [...]

breakfast with Jesus

another charcoal fire this time on a misty-morning beach – where fresh bread and fish are grill slapped by Jesus waving tongs like a crazy Greek grandma. Read more [...]

When Will We Ever Learn?

The images are so familiar. A mother, arms raised to the skies, mouth frozen in a silent scream. The dazed, earnest eyes of young men carrying the wounded on their backs. The single shoe. The random toy. The blood-soaked sheets. Read more [...]

A Bigger Boat: Reflection on Luke 5:1-11

The net we had dropped yielded nothing, but by allowing ourselves to get caught up in a net cast by Someone other than ourselves, perhaps we were standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza in a way that was, in the long run, better than what we had planned. Read more [...]

Fasting for Freedom

And who has been fasting more than the people of Gaza? Who has experienced more hunger?  The hunger for freedom of movement, the hunger to live without being bombed, the hunger to live securely in one's own home, the hunger for freedom.  The hunger to be heard in a world that chooses not to listen. Read more [...]

Christmas Eve 2009

We believe in a Big God of surprises – a wild, wide-hearted God whose spirit of justice, peace, and healing blows where She wills. We are waiting for and expecting a miracle! Read more [...]

Of Poverty and Plenty: Reflections on Haiti

Haiti does not need our sympathy or our expressions of despair on her behalf. She needs our conversion and our solidarity and our resources (that are not ours anyway). Read more [...]

Peacemaking from the Heart

 . . . our greatest gift to the world is a heart that is open to the pain of our sisters and brothers. Ironically, the sheer joy that is peacemaking is in exact proportion to the grief that we are willing to carry. Read more [...]

a daisy for rita mary

carry a daisy for Rita Mary to the gates of the death camp where weapons are made. Read more [...]