Acts of Hope

News of the demise of communion and the (Anglican) Communion is, as always, exaggerated. More than this, there is good news coming out of th...

Caminante has posted this Christmas message from Reverendisimo Martín Barahona of El Salvador and the Anglican Region of Central America. O...

I am posting this on Sunday, though I have manipulated the date of posting back to Friday, when many of us honored the feast of La Virgen de...

Yes, same root as the French word troubadour . This is a music video, not live, but at least you can see the musicians. To my ear, there are...

Helpless in the face of Hurricane Ike , which is devastating Haiti and Cuba, I post one of my favorite Cuban songs, " Amor Verdadero ,...

My friend (and friend of several of our readers here) Luiz Coelho has a lovely essay on "The Spirituality of Sweet Tea" at the E...

Well! Look where Miguel D'Escoto has turned up! Story here .

Padre Mickey and the Lovely Mona are on vacation, well deserved in the midst of their hard work as missionaries, musicians, and general pur...

I am reading Pablo Neruda's Nobel Lecture . (He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and died two years later at the age of 69.) ...

From the walls of the church in Arcatao, El Salvador. Photos of the Stations have been traveling as an exhibit "Stations of the Struggl...

From the walls of the church in Arcatao, El Salvador. Photos of the Stations have been traveling as an exhibit "Stations of the Strugg...

From the walls of the church in Arcatao, El Salvador. Photos of the Stations have been traveling as an exhibit "Stations of the Strug...

What, you gave and your cat, dog, or guppy did not? Look for their secret stash of cash, and run, don't walk, to the post office or to P...

EPIPHANY IS COMING ! The fund-raiser for the City of God ends on the Twelfth Day of Christmas. This means we only have a few days left in w...

TWO . The last shall be first so number 2 precedes number 1. For those of us who get paid on the first of the month, it's payday , whi...

The appeal : tonight, a soft sell, since I went hard sell last night . Or was it the night before? Please give to our Brazilian friends in C...

It's Casaldáliga , continued this evening, back by popular demand and also because I was already planning this last night . More from D...

As promised . Read. Give. Please. The two most important forces in my life are God who becomes incarnate and God who escapes all our definit...

This painting by Chicana political artist Yolanda Lopez caused a scandal when it came out. I don't think La Virgen minded. Lopez also p...