April 7, 2026 Esther “Etty” Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Compare her to the sitting President of the United StatesContinueContinue reading “Peace as Resistance”
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One Year Later
January 20, 2026 Today, one year into the second term of Donald Trump, we are a country in distress. Today is not a day to celebrate, but to mourn and to prepare. In another immature and bullish post (Epstein files, Venezuela, and ICE aside), Trump spewed about invading Greenland because neither Greenland nor Denmark awardedContinueContinue reading “One Year Later”
Advent 2024: Caesar or Christ?
Advent Day 17, December 17, 2024 This Advent series began as an invitation to unity in a world that is fractured by war, political division, insatiable greed, power-seeking, and biases of every sort, from skin color to sexual orientation. It is, in fact, a world very like the one that the Light/Love/Christ entered some two-thousandContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Caesar or Christ?”
An Invitation to Peace
August 26, 2021 In his book, The Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day, Brother David Steindl-Rast recalls the story of attending the ordination of Bernie (Tetsugen) Glassman Roshi as Abbot of the Riverside Zendo in New York. Zen teachers worldwide had gathered to celebrate this solemn ceremony, which wasContinueContinue reading “An Invitation to Peace”
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