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“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.” — Dorothy Thompson, journalist and amazing woman (check her out) There are moments in history when the air feels electrically charged. We sense fracture lines widening — in politics, in our own communities, sometimes even around our own dinner tables. And in such moments, even people of faith are tempted toward two extremes: retreat (into private piety), or lunge into

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”— Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives every year like a bell that rings in our conscience. It doesn’t just ask us to remember, it asks us to become. Better. More caring. More concerned for others. Less judgmental of people who are different, to become the kind of people—and the kind of community—where more families can li

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...

I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. Marshall McLuhan, writer My parents were concerned about...

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...

"There's more here, sir, than meets the eye." John Galsworthy's book, The Man of Property, when the inspector looks over the dead body...

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. -...