Thomas Merton’s, Raids on the Unspeakable, written at the height of the war in Viet Nam and Civil Rights summer,…
Reflections
A quarter century ago, Henri Nouwen went to live in Latin America to see what he could learn in poor…
Nine decades ago this month, in the Syrian World journal, Reverend W.A. Mansour quoted George Gordon as saying, “American patriotism also…
Ecologists tell us that endangered animals and plants -from the rare St. Francis satyr butterfly to paper-spined cactus that still…
The owl cries out before the dawning light To all the other desert dwellers, proclaiming “I’m still here! Maybe you…
What I am grateful for this morning is the hundreds of thousands of American women assembling in our Capitol this…
Sometimes our very sadness over disappointments in ourselves, our neighbors, our loved ones or our entire country can be transformed…
All across the country, urban neighborhood communities are taking over abandoned school grounds, church grounds and other public spaces to…
Last night, at the Desert Botanical Garden, I had the blessing to once again see Nancy Swanson, who has been…