Yoshida Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa

for Caroline   Going on a journey, whatever the destination, makes you feel suddenly awake and alive to everything. There are so many new things to see in rustic places and country villages as you wander…

The Way It Looked in 1996

The main intellectual task is to confront the Israeli conscience with the serious human and political claims of the Palestinians:  these require moral, intellectual, cultural attention of the most profound kind, and cannot easily be…

The Way It Looked in 1986

The United States was deeply committed to the French effort to reconquer their former colony, recognizing throughout that the enemy was the nationalist movement of Vietnam. The death toll was about half a million. When…

An Observation

There is no conversion of those who live in scandalous wealth to the welfare of those who live in scandalous misery. –Jon Sobrino Quotation from Apostle of Peace: Essays in Honor of Daniel Berrigan Photos by Mev…

Remembering Mev in San Antonio

Hi, Mark! Hope that this new year is one full of blessings for you. You’ve probably already received lots of copies of the article on Mev but decided to send it just in case. This…

In Tokyo, on a Layover

Read Dear Layla with wet eyes. And huge smiles of recognition, not just of myself but of the recognition of common turning points. Despite the desperate situation, despite all that cannot be done, all that…

Share the Wealth with Jim Lochhead

This Friday, January 15th, Jim Lochhead will be sharing on his experience interning in rural El Salvador this past summer. Working with a small capacity building NGO, Voices on the Border, Jim did a qualitative…

1.26.1963-1.12.1996

  “I have an energetic personality. I love and want to get along with people. I am unusually joyous. I have strong convictions. My weaknesses are the flip-sides of my strengths. I can be domineering…

Faces/1 (A Letter from Prison)

“Dear Perry Thinking of you a lot these days Been reading the martyrs Here in my homey little cell (For a while I got solitary for asking disruptive questions) Wanted to send you this little…