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Sinead O’Connor’s not angry anymore; or at least not angry in the same way. Her tearing up of a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live 15 years ago, combined with what we think we know about her ordination into an unofficial offshoot of the Catholic church, give a convenient excuse for…

This story in today’s Washington Post made my day. As a pacifist Mennonite, I can’t count the number of times someone has posed “The Question”: If someone had a gun to your loved one’s head, and you could use lethal violence to save them, what would you do? This scenario that unfolded in a D.C.…

We don’t need another election. We need an exorcism. It is this that leads me from vigil to vigil and I burned with it on the evening of March 16, when I participated in nonviolent civil resistance and was arrested with more than 200 others as part of the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq. I…

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Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. – Matthew 10:8 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

The ones to trust are the ones who give not just their money, but their person, those who give their lives for their neighbor. – Arturo Paoli + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Many conscientious service members have been speaking out despite an often oppressive and unforgiving atmosphere. Some of us have even been persecuted and attacked while exercising our civic duty of speaking truth to power in times of moral crises. The Rev. Lennox Yearwood, an Air Force chaplain, faces accusations of working against national security. Liam…

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Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. I said in…

To me, practicing mindfulness in the act of consuming is the basic act of social justice. – Thich Nhat Hanh Interview by Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Ghandi. + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
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