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
Photograph by Jason Francisco A Prayer for the Mothers for Life and Peace Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum and Sheikha Ibtisam Mahameed
Vincent Van Gogh, The Poet’s Garden (detail), photograph by Jason Francisco Today at the University of San Francisco (USF), in the Archbishop Romero room of the University Ministry Offices, I participated in a vigil to share our grief at… Continue Reading
New York City, Climate Protests, September 17, 2023; photo by Bill McKibben Today the United Nations convened the first day of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit in advance of the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly.… Continue Reading
March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture March on Washington August 28 1963 © Jim Wallace, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture I have… Continue Reading
Young Woman with Banner, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, 28 August 1963 Photograph by Rowland Scherman, Wikimedia Commons Sixty years ago today, on August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the March on… Continue Reading
This morning, the New Yorker online magazine has published an excerpt from Dr. Clarence B. Jones’s Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir, which Dr. Jones wrote with Stuart Connelly. You can find today’s New… Continue Reading
