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Giving thanks for you from Jerusalem

November 22, 2016 No Comments

While in Jerusalem on an Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation earlier this month, I recorded a special message for you. Perhaps nowhere is it more clear than here in Israel-Palestine that the work of peace with justice through the transformative power of nonviolence is so needed in the world. Watch my Thanksgiving video message to you and all FOR supporters: Thank you for

Something to Teach Us About Living Well

November 20, 2016 No Comments

As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to lend support. The author believes that part of the support for the Standing Rock protests is a dawning consciousness that Native people have something important to teach us about living well

Something to Teach Us About Living Well

November 20, 2016 No Comments

As efforts to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline grow, communities across the country are hearing from activists on their return from North Dakota and sending off fresh teams to lend support. The author believes that part of the support for the Standing Rock protests is a dawning consciousness that Native people have something important to teach us about living well

#NODAPL: Interfaith Appeal for Justice at Standing Rock

November 16, 2016 No Comments

“In the waning hours of his presidency, President Obama must recognize the sovereign status of the Sioux Nation and respect their wishes concerning the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is an opportunity for the United States to heal the harm suffered by indigenous persons of this land as a result of conquest and colonization. This is an opportunity to forge a

Where to Turn

November 13, 2016 No Comments

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he wrote. But the U.S. government

Where to Turn

November 13, 2016 No Comments

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry into the U.S. “I know of no-one else to whom to turn for help,” he wrote. But the U.S. government