Family members of Sept. 11 victims traveled to Afghanistan last January to meet their counterparts—families who were the victims of U.S. bombings.
Sept. 11
Some people think that if you have a position of Christian nonviolence, you don’t have anything to say because you’re excluded from making discriminating political judgments.
The most significant ways—both short and long term—to deal with the sources of terrorism will emerge more from within the circles that are close to it rather than from sources that depend upon it from outside.
Friends, this song is called "I Heard an Owl," and it was written two days after the Sept. 11 tragedy.
Those of you in the hinterlands—when you’re not taking care of your hinter—are probably wondering what life is like now in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital...
"It’s heartbreaking to see how quickly this happened and how much people are already hurting," says Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Apocalypse grabs us by the shoulders and says, 'Look at what matters in life.'
Our broken hearts are indeed the proper place to begin theological reflection. Wounded hearts, the tears of suffering and death, however, can lead divergent ways.
When the Visigoths sacked Rome, the Eternal City, in 410 C.E., the attackers used the city's own mighty transportation system-the Appian Way-as the weapon of its downfall.
Many of us feel a deep desire for revenge and violent retribution. We know how natural that is. We want to strike back at the perpetrators.
Politicians have given the president a military blank check. The church, however, cannot write a moral blank check.
For 20 years I have worked as a mediator in violent situations, from Northern Ireland to Somalia, from Colombia to Nicaragua...
War was so much easier before the world's borders began to seep like a sieve.
The bin Laden organization and other terrorist networks are obviously fired by an intense hatred of the United States.
The United States will never be the same again; these are watershed days of irreversible change.
This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue even more critical.