Wednesday, February 22, 2012
  • Participants listen during an award presentation at the Faith Advocacy Day 2012 held in the History Colorado building in downtown Denver. (Marrton Dormish)

    Thoughts on advocacy and faith

    Tuesday, February 21, 2012

    Yesterday, a friend and I joined about 150 local clergy and community leaders at the Faith Advocacy Day organized by Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-Colorado. Co-sponsors of the gathering included the Jubilee Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, the Colorado Council of Churches and Colorado Interfaith Voices for Justice. The half-day event focused on how people of [...]

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  • At a spring 2009 seminar, young Israelis and Palestinians gathered for dialogue and team building challenges led by the organization Seeds of Peace. (Seeds of Peace via Wikimedia Commons)

    “Us” versus “Them”

    Monday, February 13, 2012

    My alma mater is part of a heated rivalry that extends back to the days of the Civil War (or as my friend from Mississippi recently called it, “the War of Northern Aggression”). It is so heated, in fact, that it was recently recognized by ESPN as the college basketball rivalry that best incarnates “hatred.” Browse nearly any [...]

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  • The unassuming Church of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Italy, namesake of the worldwide Community of Sant'Egidio. (Wikimedia Commons)

    The Gospel and Freedom

    Saturday, January 28, 2012

    Some stories worth sharing involve more than one individual or one family. Sometimes they involve a community, and a untraditional one at that. I first heard about the Community of Sant’Egidio from the audio version of Thomas Cahill’s Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, published in 1999. Its cassettes–yes, cassettes, not [...]

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Profiles

Martin Luther King, Jr., with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. (Yoichi R. Okamoto via Wikimedia Commons)
Jan
16

He Had a Dream

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Parking meters in at least one major U.S. city were free today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day., a holiday observed in all 50 of the United States since 2000. Because of today’s holiday, government offices were closed. Public libraries, which contain shelves of books devoted to King and the movement he helped lead, were closed, [...]

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta. (Wikipedia)
Dec
30

A Call Within a Call

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Her first name – Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu — is little known. However, her second — Mother Teresa of Calcutta — is perhaps the most admired name in recent history. Although she died on Sept. 5, 1997, Mother Teresa is still associated by many with the highest ideals of service and compassion for the poorest of the poor. [...]

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Commentary

The entrance to the concentration camp Auschwitz I reads "Arbeit macht frei" -- "Work makes (one) free." (Wikimedia Commons)
Jan
27

Remembering Auschwitz

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Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp from Nazi control 67 years ago today. Ever since that day, Auschwitz has been a byword of horror for all of humanity, a warning of the depths of depravity to which even the most “civilized” people can descend. I visited Auschwitz in July 1995 after my sophomore year [...]

A Port au Prince neighborhood in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. (UN photo/Logan Abassi, United Nations Development Programme)
Jan
13

Bearing witness

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My friend Revi Sterling, director of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sent out a heads-up Tweet yesterday, and because of it, I got to hear Juliana Rotich speak. Rotich, for those of you who haven’t heard of her, is a cofounder of the crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi, an increasingly influential [...]

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