Cover Story

Jim Rice 8-01-2007

Proponents claim that nuclear energy is the power source of the future - clean, green, and safe. Are they right?

Bonnie Urfer 8-01-2007

Every year, 1 million radioactive shipments crisscross the U.S.

Bill McKibben 7-01-2007

The fight against global warming will require a movement full of fire and prayer. That movement has begun...

James H. Cone 7-01-2007

Why the environmental movement and the racial justice movement need each other.

Laurel Mathewson 7-01-2007

1) Organize. If a presidential candidate is coming your way, ask him or her: How are we going to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050? What's your plan?

2) Organize.

What congregations can do to restore creation.

Khristine Hopkins 6-01-2007

Though I have stood weekly at a vigil for the last five years, been in several marches, and even participated in civil disobedience, I have never had the opportunity to do direct action in an inten

Raphael G. Warnock 6-01-2007

Whenever there are billions of dollars and then billions more available to bomb Baghdad, but never enough to rebuild New Orleans, an American city, parts of which still look like a Third World coun

Ambassadors. I'm a sometimes preacher, these days a Methodist holding forth among an Episcopal congregation in Detroit.

There were dozens of people in a bleak group. It's a very specific look, one you will find only outside the Baghdad morgue.

Bob Francis 6-01-2007

I WATCHED FOR MONTHS as many of my coworkers devoted themselves to preparation for the Christian Peace Witness, including weeks of negotiation for the civil disobedience.

Helen LaKelly Hunt 6-01-2007

Rollercoaster feelings all around began with the storming weather that day. While it kept many away, for those gathered in the National Cathedral it seemed to enhance the energy of the evening.

Jenny Duskey 6-01-2007

I was born just before the United States entered World War II, and I've been participating in peace walks and vigils since the war in Vietnam. This was one of the best organized and deeply felt.

Jim King 6-01-2007

Walking beside me was our 15-year-old son, David, and Odess Monsanje, from Zambia, who is living with us for a year.

Laurel Mathewson 6-01-2007

As we stepped out of the cathedral, wind blew snow from the rooftops, past the lit windows of the Cotswold-like cottage beside the cathedral.

Larisa Friesen 6-01-2007

From my seat in the balcony in the National Cathedral, I realized that the crowd I saw numbered nearly the same as the number of American soldiers who had fallen in the last four years.

Celeste Zappala 6-01-2007

I am Celeste Zappala, of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia, of Military Families Speak Out, and, sadly, of Gold Star Families Speak Out, because I am the mother of a f

Phyllis Taylor 6-01-2007

As a Jewish person in this Christian peace witness, I felt affirmed and welcomed by the other participants.

Colin Mathewson 6-01-2007

No one person, and yet seemingly every person in on the planning of this event, was in charge.

Amy Yarnell 6-01-2007

The depth of my sorrow for the loss of life on all sides seems beyond expression.