As many of you know, I don't plan to vote for John McCain. I don't like his politics, read: don't share his apparent love for war and his (or his followers) hell-bend posturing not just to beat Barack Obama but to perform character assassination on our first African American running for the Oval Office. [...]...

"Read them fairy tales." Albert Einstein How could we forget that toddlers squeal the anthem of the moon: a song muses covet? Did we also forget which child purpled the night and placed gold coins in true baskets like aging gypsies to make a home for a lost cherubim? The infants who sleep behind the gate of the vegetable [...]...

We become neighbours when we are willing to cross the road for one another. There is so much separation and segregation: between black people and white people, between gay people and straight people, between young people and old people, between sick people and healthy people, between prisoners and free people, between Jews and Gentiles, Muslims [...]...

"Love your neighbour as yourself" the Gospel says (Matthew 22:38). But who is my neighbor? We often respond to that question by saying: "My neighbours are all the people I am living with on this earth, especially the sick, the hungry, the dying, and all who are in need." But this is not what Jesus [...]...

Communities as well as individuals suffer. All over the world there are large groups of people who are persecuted, mistreated, abused, and made victims of horrendous crimes. There are suffering families, suffering circles of friends, suffering religious communities, suffering ethnic groups, and suffering nations. In these suffering bodies of people we must be able to [...]...