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Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour

June 11, 2017 No Comments

12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against Child Labour that had crossed a 100 countries to present their plight to the International Labour Organization (ILO). “We are

FOR joins faith-based coalition in commemorating gun violence anniversaries

June 8, 2017 No Comments

This coming week, our nation will pause twice to remember a pair of tragic anniversaries. On June 12, we observe the one-year commemoration of the massacre in Orlando, Florida, during which more than 100 people were killed or seriously wounded. Five days later, on June 17, we will recall another horrific hate crime: the mass slaying of nine members of

FOR joins faith-based coalition in commemorating gun violence anniversaries

June 8, 2017 No Comments

This coming week, our nation will pause twice to remember a pair of tragic anniversaries. On June 12, we observe the one-year commemoration of the massacre in Orlando, Florida, during which more than 100 people were killed or seriously wounded. Five days later, on June 17, we will recall another horrific hate crime: the mass slaying of nine members of

The Root of War is Fear: Domine ut videam

June 7, 2017 No Comments

Fear has driven people so far into the confusion of mass-thinking that they no longer see anything except in a kind of dim dream. What a population of zombies we are! What can be expected of us?…Only love can exorcise fear which is the root of war. Thomas Merton Jim Forest. The Root of War is Fear (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis

For all that has been, thanks

May 26, 2017 No Comments

Today I share news that is exciting and saddening in equal measure. This week I have accepted the appointment by Bishop Minerva Carcaño to be Pastor of Epworth United Methodist Church in Berkeley, California, effective July 1, 2017. Epworth is a wonderful, justice-centered congregation, and includes several Fellowship of Reconciliation members. Though I am sad to be leaving the role

For all that has been, thanks

May 26, 2017 No Comments

Today I share news that is exciting and saddening in equal measure. This week I have accepted the appointment by Bishop Minerva Carcaño to be Pastor of Epworth United Methodist Church in Berkeley, California, effective July 1, 2017. Epworth is a wonderful, justice-centered congregation, and includes several Fellowship of Reconciliation members. Though I am sad to be leaving the role