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Defiant Hope: St. Patrick's Day in Northern Ireland

Apricot Irving 3-17-2009

Two years ago, I celebrated St. Patrick's Day in Ireland with my parents, my husband, and my one-year-old son.

3rd Sunday of Lent: Unpredictable Hope

Barbara Born 3-15-2009

Bible readings from the Revised Common Lectionary: Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 2: 13-22

Ash Wednesday: Concrete Solidarity

Barbara Born 2-25-2009

Bible readings from the Revised Common Lectionary: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51; 2nd Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21.

Friendship Across Fences: Communion and Civil Disobedience on the U.S.-Mexico Border

John Fanestil 2-11-2009

Each Sunday afternoon, people from San Diego and Tijuana gather to celebrate communion at a seaside plaza on the U.S.-Mexico border, where families and friends have been meeting for generations to visit through the border fence.

An Education in Border Injustice

2-06-2009

As I sat in the federal court room in Tucson witnessing the sentencing of over 60 people who had been caught crossing the border between the U.S.

Torturing the Least of These

Jimmy McCarty 9-10-2008

photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler Christians are people who follow a tortured and murdered God. This fact speaks clearly to what our values should be. One of those values should be a rejection of torture, violence in the name of "law" and the common good, and murder.

Currently, the U.S. government has been accused of torture at Guantanamo Bay and has

Talismans and Tokens

Phyllis Tickle 8-24-2008

Summer Sundays with Phyllis Tickle

I'm not much for talismans or religious tokens in the usual sense of those things. I wear around my neck every day of my life a chain with four emblems or medals on it. One is a Celtic cross given me on my 65th birthday by my favorite college chum from more than a half-century ago. One is [...]