The U.N. climate change talks in South Africa were a major disappointment -- but the struggle continues.
Commentary
Marie Dennis 2-01-2012
With U.S. troops now in Africa to escalate the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army, clergy in the region express concern.
Nancy Milio, Curt Torell 2-01-2012
A Quaker community in North Carolina reaches out to its Muslim neighbors.
Rep. John Lewis 1-01-2012
All of us owe Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth a heavy debt of gratitude for his willingness to give all he had to help build a more just society.
Lisa Sharon Harper 1-01-2012
A conference at Cedarville University shows new political boundary-crossing in the Christian college world.
Phyllis Bennis 12-01-2011
U.S. troops will finally withdraw from Iraq -- but what about the contractors?
Peter Maybarduk 12-01-2011
The U.S. should put publicly funded medicines in reach of the world's poor.
Julie Polter 12-01-2011
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EVERY FEW YEARS I rediscover a song by R.E.M., “You are the Everything.” It juxtaposes despair over the state of things (“Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing / I'm very scared for this world”) with deceptively simple memories: A starry sky. The sensations of a random moment long ago. The feel of our own bodies. The sight of someone beloved (“I look at her and I see the beauty / of the light of music”).
This song gives me cathartic comfort when the news seems too much to bear. It doesn't erase famine, wars, rumors of wars, a friend's bad pathology report, or my concern over the body politic. But my position shifts; I anchor myself to the beauty of creation, to the miracle of being an embodied soul, to the fragile graces of human relationship, and to the One who brought it all into being. Thin guy wires of memory and spirit steady me against sweeping currents of events, so that I can focus on them, yet not drown.
David Hilfiker 11-01-2011
Doomsday threats and Wall Street influence erode U.S. government for the people.
Tom Getman 11-01-2011
Glenn Beck's exploitative event in Israel ignored justice and U.S. public opinion.
Toya Richards 11-01-2011
The Housing First approach to homelessness is more humane -- and cheaper -- than older models.
Claire Lorentzen 9-01-2011
ROTC is back on campuses -- but military thinking still conflicts with the life of the mind.
Richard Kirsch 9-01-2011
Will we control high U.S. health-care costs, or just shift them to seniors?
Gebe Martinez 9-01-2011
'Silent' raids that drive workers into the underground economy are worse than useless.
Marie Dennis 8-01-2011
Hiroshima and Fukushima remind us that civilian and military nuclear technology go hand in hand.