Awake!

Monday, 17 January 2011, 10:44 | Category : holidays, Peace
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The speeches, sermons and lectures of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are being broadcast today on WPFW (Pacifica Radio). Strength to Love may be one of King’s most important works. I picked it up at the recommendation of a guy browsing, like me, in a Borders bookstore. I was looking in the religious section at [...]

In faith…

Friday, 6 August 2010, 15:20 | Category : Art and Design, Asian, Culture, Peace, Religion, War
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Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city 65 [...]

To Everything There Is a Season

A week or two after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, I made a trip to NYC for a few days to attend a film market. During that trip I found myself in a small peace demonstration near NYU. Honestly, I was there to meet a friend who was asked to provide [...]

President Barack Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Friday, 9 October 2009, 8:30 | Category : Barack Obama, international affairs, Peace
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Hey Rush and Glenn – Is this the consolation prize for losing the 2016 Olympics bid? What will SNL make up of this? The Nobel Foundation has awarded President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the third sitting U.S. President to win the prize. Theodore Roosevelt was the first in 1906 for [...]

Quote for the day

Thursday, 11 June 2009, 7:56 | Category : Art and Design, Peace, The Arts
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REVELATIONS Bless you for your anger. For it is a sign of rising energy. Direct not to your family, waste not on your enemy. Transform the energy to versatility And it will bring you prosperity. Bless you for your sorrow For it is a sign of vulnerability. Share not with your family, direct not to [...]