Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty, who says to a king, “You scoundrel!” and to princes, “You wicked men!”; who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of [God’s] hands? – Job 34:17-19 +…

The neo-cons running this administration’s foreign policy are like most ideologues. Rather than allowing the facts to determine a course of action, they have their predetermined opinions and then shape the evidence to match. On Sunday, a group of anonymous senior United States military officials held a press briefing in Baghdad to present their case…

It’s been in the works for quite some time, but yesterday we announced my participation in a delegation of 13 religious leaders who will be leaving this coming Saturday, February 17, for a trip to Iran. Our delegation, which is being led by the Mennonites and Quakers, will be meeting with a variety of religious…

In mid-January, a few of us launched a Web site: stepitup07.org. We didn’t have a big group behind us, and we didn’t have any money – just an idea, that the time had finally come for Americans to move past concern about global warming and on to real action. We’d organized a march across Vermont…

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