December 10th marks the U.N. Human Rights Day, celebrating and upholding the indispensable and crucial declaration of universal human rights. On the eve of this event, I visited a refugee camp housing 700 families in Kabul. Conditions in refugee camps can be...
In 2016, President-elect Donald Trump threatened to put Muslim citizens on a registry, once elected. Let’s continue building a nation that welcomes all people in 2017. The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (1883) Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With...
Here in Kabul, I’m generally an early riser at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, but I’m seldom alone. Facing exams, my young friends awaken early and then stay up late to study. Before sunrise this morning, eighteen year old Ghulamai sits in the...
Displaced persons with water tank in Geneina, West Darfur in 2007. (Photo: Courtesy of WikiCommons) 9 December is the anniversary of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Genocide Convention is a landmark in the effort to...
To move to a different place, a better place, a safer space, we must wrestle. It does not seem right or fair. With there being a God for all of us, it seems like wrestling, struggling, ought not be necessary –at least not ongoing wrestling. We get the impression by...
Yesterday was a day that Standing Rock Sioux tribal elders had called for a national interfaith day of prayer. Those prayers rolled into celebrations as news was received that the Army Corps of Engineers would deny an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross...
