Sylvia Hood Washington didn’t set out to be an advocate for climate justice. “I don’t want to be on this mission,” she says. “My kids are out of college and...
Activism
When I landed on the muddy ground inside Seneca Army Depot early one October morning in 1983, I heard a friend call from outside, “Did you practice that, Fran...
Jessie Dye is rarely at a loss for words. And that’s a good thing, because she’s part of a grassroots climate movement that has no time for silence. When she...
On Thursday night, November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced his executive action limiting deportations of undocumented immigrants to the most...
By Jim Forest (Orbis, 2014) Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies might be the hardest to follow. It is a transformational directive that is at the...
Though his critics persist, Óscar Romero’s martyrdom has finally been recognized. Just before Robert White was dispatched as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador in...
We can borrow Vincent de Paul’s tough questions about how to best help those most in need. Turn away from the new iPhone and toward your neighbor. This is the...
c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) The Moral Monday movement, birthed by activists who protest the actions of the North Carolina General...
Should a librarian have any less of a right to unionize than an auto worker or a nurse? In 1981 my grandmother, a librarian, became a union organizer. The...
Immigrants may seem like a powerless population, but community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley believes that together they can be a force for positive change. As a...
