First Person: When a Pastor Protects a Pedophile

We attended a typical church. Wednesday night prayer meeting was almost always the people you knew, and rarely were there visitors. But, after church for choir practice, the 40 choir members were all known by name and were supposed to abide by certain standards in...

Bush Warns Against Failure In Iraq

Once again we have been warned by President George W. Bush that failure in Iraq would be “grievous and far-reaching.” I have not counted the times he has used fear to get the public’s attention. Tuesday in the annual State of the Union address he...

A Home Run of an Idea

In an article for Ethics Daily, Charles Deweese makes the case that sports is one of the world’s largest religions. There is no doubt that sports pervade much of our culture. Stadiums and arenas are the cathedrals in which we pay homage and reverence to our...

Peace Or Trouble Maker?

Since leaving office in 1981, Jimmy Carter has been by far our most active former president. His efforts through the Carter Center to help fledgling democracies, and his support of poverty initiatives and other humanitarian concerns helped him win the Nobel Peace...

Living in the Borderlands

From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States from Latin America. Around the halfway point on this border is Ciudad Juárez. Flowing southeastwardly from Ciudad Juárez to Matamoros is the...

A New Chance for Peace?

I am concerned that public discussion of my book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” has been diverted from the book’s basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended....