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Oh God, I don’t love you,I don’t even want to love you,but I want to want to love you! – Saint Teresa of Avila Source: “The Interior Castle” by Teresa of Avila. + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

This weekend, our nation paused once again to remember the life of a modern-day prophet. In pulpits across the country, preachers offered sermons reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King’s seemingly timeless message. While Dr. King’s words were quoted across the nation, I fear that the majority of Americans only heard a perfunctory mention of King’s…

The latest news on Iraq build-up and GI resistance, King holiday, Congress-domestic issues and Republicans, Iran, Middle East, marriage, and select op-eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: King holiday. Nation pays homage to King’s vision, service – “The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day since the…

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day in Washington, D.C., almost spring-like in the middle of January (there may be a global warming story here for another blog!). And, of course, it was the official annual celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To remember the day, and not just take a day…

As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause. [God] does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number. [God] gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields; [and] sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. – Job…

The word for peace in both Arabic (salam) and Hebrew (shalom) has the same etymological root and the same breadth of meaning: wholeness, health, safety, and security. It refers to a peace experienced and lived out in the everyday historical situation of life. Peace can be a basis or cause that leads to something else.…

In early 1967, in a historic speech at New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently spoke of his opposition to the growing war in Vietnam and it’s effect on the domestic war on poverty. Forty years later, as we honor the birthday of Dr. King, let us reflect on his words…

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. –…

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. – Martin Luther King Jr. + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

It is hard to believe in [Christ’s love] because it is a devouring love. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God. If we do once catch a glimpse of it we are afraid of it. Once we recognize that we are [children] of God, that the seed of…
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