When John Mayer’s hit single “Waiting On the World to Change” first hit the radio waves, I would refuse to listen to it. My self-assured high school-aged smugness thought that this...Read More
“Few realities have determined the course of history more than the choices by which individuals, social groups, and nations have responded to aggression and hatred.”(John Rempel) “Lo...Read More
I have seen a lot of responses to the recent verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. Many of the responses have expressed outrage, sadness, and a host of other emotions and opinions about this unfortun...Read More
The dialog of the growing violence in America has been an on-going talk for some populations and segments of American society for most of its history. There are the peacemakers in society that have be...Read More
Today the LA Times reported that “After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury…found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 20...Read More
The news this week, like many recent weeks, has been full of stories of injustice, violence, misunderstanding, pain. As an American, there are plenty of stories within our national framework to choose...Read More
Over the last several weeks the story and life of Troy Davis has moved to the center of many conversations buzzing around me. As I delved deeper into his life, what I found was a story of an African...Read More
Though I didn’t lose a leg that night, I did lose something else: a naïve belief that my body was somehow exempt from death. My time as a student chaplain in the hospitals of Oxford taught me to co...Read More
Article first published as What to a Felon is the Fourth of July? on Blogcritics. One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, Frederick Douglass was invited to give a speech to commemorate the birth of what...Read More