“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Prize for Peace. In his Nobel Lecture, delivered on December 11, 1964, Dr. King spoke about the presidential election in the United States in which Democratic candidate… Continue Reading
Today, August 28 2024, we remember the 1963 March on Washington, at the time the largest mass demonstration in U.S. history, described by co-organizers A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin as ” the advanced guard of a massive, moral… Continue Reading
Like all of us, I have been reeling in the wake of recent events in the political life of our nation. For clarity in the midst of the chaos around us, I often turn to the outstanding blog published… Continue Reading
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Sarajevo, five minutes before their assassination, 28 June 1914. Photo, Walter Tausch, Wikimedia Commons. I am in London visiting my dear friends Michael and Mary Pat Robertson I planned this trip months… Continue Reading
As we conclude our celebration of Juneteenth 2024, we remember especially Rev. James M. Lawson (September 22, 1928 to June 10, 2024) was perhaps the most important and influential teacher and strategist of Gandhian nonviolence after Mahatma Gandhi… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr., 26 March 1964. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons Had he lived, Dr. King would have been 95 years old today — January 15, 2024. Imagine Dr. King at 95. … Continue Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr., Library of Congress, Creative Commons On December 24, 1967—the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a prophetic Christmas sermon from the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Delivered more than a half-century… Continue Reading
Jordan River, 1934, American Colony (Jerusalem), Library of Congress From the River 1. Listen to the Muezzin, Eretz Yisrael. O Falastin لسطين The children wail. If I forget Thee O Yerushalayim. Eli, Eli. Mayim Mayim. … Continue Reading
In this time of bloody knives and 2000-pound bombs, this horrible moment of war, trauma and mourning, when terrorists hold hostages and all of Gaza is held in terror, and death is everywhere, words cannot kill. Words are… Continue Reading
הַבְּרָכָ֖ה וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ בַּחַיִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן תִּֽחְיֶ֖ה אַתָּ֥ה וְזַרְעֶֽךָ׃ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live— Deuteronomy… Continue Reading
