Columns: At the Crossroads

Arlington Cemetery's expansion, though it can be regarded simply as a practical exigency, is symbolic of a doubling-down on war-making well into the future. More

I’m awash in my deep gratefulness for the lives of three agents of nonviolent change who recently passed away: Bob Edgar, Ira Sandperl, and Ann O’Connor.More

Sandra Steingraber, the renowned biologist, author, poet and cancer survivor, is serving a 15-day sentence for interfering with the smooth, forward motion of the burgeoning fracking industry. More

Michael McConnell, the Midwest regional director of the American Friends Service Committee who died last week of cancer, is being remembered for many contributions to the struggle for justice and peace, especially the project he initiated in 2004, originally entitled, “Eyes Wide Open: The Human Costs of the War in Iraq.”More

Fifty years ago today, Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in Terris, an encyclical that explicitly offered Catholics and others an historic warrant for civil disobedience and civil resistance.More

Since Guernica we have seen the spirit of resistance embodied in numerous movements for nonviolent change and nonviolent change agents, including Dr. King, whose memory we praise today, the 45th anniversary of his assassination.More

Many groups have dramatized the nonviolent potential of the Stations of the Cross, including the annual Good Friday Ways of the Cross for justice and peace taking place this Friday at the Nevada Test Site and in New York City, Chicago, and many other locations.More

Quite likely, without the work of Guatemala’s truth commission, the ongoing trial of Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt would not be taking place.More

Some 30 statues of the Buddha — consisting of a serene and centered face emerging from the ground — have recently sprouted in Chicago neighborhoods regularly wracked with violence.More