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Category archive for ‘Reflections’

Remembering Oscar Romero in a Time of War

3/21/11
Breakfast Discipleship

3/15/11
Lenten Reflections on Immigration

3/11/11
Remember the Victims of the Amariyah Shelter Bombing

2/13/11
Day 7 Fast for Justice Reflection

1/18/11
An Advent Meditation from Dachau

12/12/10
Dorothy Day: Practitioner of the Incarnation

11/14/10
Blessed Offerings: A Quilt for Catholic Women

9/26/10
Witness of Repentance and Hope

8/08/10
What Does it Mean to be Church?

7/20/10
Three Days from Transfiguration

7/20/10
From Argentina: Prayer and Prison

7/19/10
A Reflection on Salvation

6/21/10
A Soldier for Christ

5/16/10
Awakening in the Nuclear Age

4/11/10
Reflection for Passion (Palm) Sunday

3/23/10
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

3/20/10
Lent in a Warmaking Empire

3/13/10
Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

3/13/10

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On the Road to Peace

Activist recalls bloody train incident, nonviolent life in new book
On Sept. 1, 1987, one of the most dedicated peace activists in the nation sat down with friends on the train tracks outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station near the Bay Area in California to block a U.S. Navy Munitions train loaded with weapons bound for Nicaragua and El Salvador. read more […]
Raising the question of peace outside churches of all faiths
Last summer, 85-year-old Mennonite peace activist Peter Ediger decided to take his passion for peace to the churches in Las Vegas, where he lives. Peter works for Pace e Bene, the Franciscan nonviolence program. Like many of us, he's concerned that the churches in the United States are ignoring, if not blatantly rejecting, the nonviolence of Jesus. So h […]
What Martin Luther King Jr. can teach us about nonviolence
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I've been reflecting on the principles of nonviolence that he learned during the historic yearlong bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. After Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, broke the segregation law and was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, the African-American leadership in Montgomery famously c […]