Our Wars
On David Harris, Our War (Random House, 1996) Today there exist tremendous and unprecedented possibilities for knowing the reality of our world just as it is, with all that it has in it of anti-kingdom…
Category: Activists
An Unpayable Debt
Upon beginning Martha Hess’s book, Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam, I was immediately reminded of my late wife Mev Puleo who embarked on a similar project at about the same time as Hess….
Deep Listening
“I’m sorry. We Americans have never taken responsibility for what we did.” –Lady Borton Lady Borton worked for the American Friends Service Committee in South Vietnam from 1969-1971. A decade later, she assisted Vietnamese boat…
Latin America Reading Group: I, Rigoberta Menchú
This month we meet To discuss I, Rigoberta Menchú On Tuesday 29 January At 7 p.m. At Cafe Ventana Please join us!
The Cry of Vietnam
Published in 1968, The Cry of Vietnam is a short collection of heart-breaking poems and stirring drawings by Thich Nhat Hanh and Vo-Dinh. The book’s epigraph is taken from the classic Vietnamese work, The Tale…
For U.S. Agent Orange Birth Defect Children
I ask that you urge VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to obey Public Law 110-387 and provide “comprehensive health care” to the several hundred children of Vietnam vets having birth defects connected to their parents exposure…
Sharing the Wealth with Jennifer Reyes Lay: Recovering our True Selves
As we prepare to bid farewell to another year, and welcome a new one, join Jennifer Reyes Lay in reflecting on the different communities of liberation which help her to live more mindfully, take control…
Sound Advice
“When you have a big pain you don’t know how to resolve, go back to your breath.” Sister Chân Không
The Struggle Is One
“In Portuguese, a luta, or in Spanish, la lucha, is the struggle for survival, the struggle to bring about the Reign of God: a piece of bread, a plot of land, a just wage, a…
Litany/2 (¡Presente!)
The following was near the end in the original version of The Book of Mev. Ignacio Ellacuría, engaged intellectual, credible witness, Fearless announcer of God’s Kingdom . . . ¡Presente! Ordinary eco-friendly folk, hallowers of…