by Fr. John Dear, S.J. Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace "Everybody's told me over and over and over again it's a done deal, it's going to happen, how childish it is for everyone to protest it," Bill McKibben, founder of the group 350.org and one of our leading environmental activists, told The New York Times last week, referring to President … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Book provides interfaith spiritual perspective on our ecological disaster
REFLECTION: A revolutionary message
By Wendell Berry, originally published in 2004 in Sojourners The gospels, and sometimes the epistles, are pretty revolutionary. They propose a revolution of about 180 degrees. Christ was quite explicit, for instance, about his pacifism. You can't be more explicit than "Love your enemies." He did run those people out of the temple, but he didn't kill … Continue reading REFLECTION: A revolutionary message