1. What led you to start an intentional community ministering to gang members? Gangs have a really strong sense of community: They fight and die for their homies and they support each other. Other programs offer job skills or anger management, but don’t offer community. We offer a community like the community they have. After many years working with them, we realized that was attractive to them—they feel at home.
El Salvador
Duane Shank 9-07-2011
Two long pieces this weekend described "one hell of a killing machine," and "the dark matter
Anna Brown 12-30-2010
On December 13, a Tacoma-based jury declared five Disarm Trident Now Plowshares activists "guilty" of trespass, felony damage to federal property, felony injury to property, and felony conspiracy to damage property.
John Gehring 4-23-2010
These are dark days for Catholics and our church. The clergy sexual abuse scandals are a source of profound pain and raw anger.
Becky Garrison 2-05-2010
Tomorrow, Jamie Moffett, director of The Ordinary Radicals, will debut the first seven minutes of his documentary Return to El Salvado
Becky Garrison 8-18-2009
Jamie Moffett, co-founder of The Simple Way and director of The Ordinary Radicals, tra
Robert Brenneman 4-01-2009
In Central America, Christians are countering gang and government violence armed only with faith and the belief that no one -- not even the worst criminal -- is beyond hope.
Jennifer Svetlik 11-19-2008
Last spring, I made a pilgrimage to rural El Salvador to learn about the violence that had occurred there during the U.S-supported Salvadoran Civil War. The journey became a sacred one for me my first evening there, in the home of my host Florinda.
Rose Marie Berger 4-01-2008
Image via Johan Bergström-Allen / Archbishop Romero Trust
Sometimes, Easter finds us.
William Van Lopik 3-01-2008
I greatly appreciated the interview Michelle García conducted with Jon Sobrino (“Goodness Revealed,” January 2008).
Andrew Cleves 2-01-2008
An estimated 25,000 people gathered in November at the gates of Fort Benning in Georgia as part of the 18th annual School of the Americas protest. The U.S.
Celeste Kennel-Shank 1-01-2006
When Hurricane Stan hit the Gulf of Mexico last October, it deluged Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras before losing its power.
Rose Marie Berger, Susannah Hunter 1-01-2001
The presidential elections weren't the only things casting a long shadow over the Sunshine State this fall.
Inocencio Alas, Salvador Carranza, Carmen Chacon, Carmen Elena Hernandez, Maria Isabel, Juan Macho 3-01-2000
Memories of the archbishop on the anniversary of his assassination.
Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1996
I did not expect a great blue heron to visit my neighborhood in northeast Atlanta.