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Someone on Facebook asked why my parents got married in Mexico City. Since it's too long an answer for Facebook, here goes. My father go...

The Tablet , whose articles you can't read online unless you subscribe, is probably the best Catholic periodical on the planet, or one o...

Brother of Acts of Hope and Beloved of Brother of Acts of Hope are flying in from Europe on Saturday and we are converging on Parents of Act...

********** Walter Cronkite, journalist, 1916-2009. ****** Rest in peace. And thank you. Obituary here .

I quoted Howard Zinn and referred people to his "Election Madness" essay during the presidential campaign till I was blue in the...

I had a hunch this would happen, and it did. Good. Off three to second of two all-day department planning meetings (a.k.a. "retreat...

Frank Rich's column is a must-read. And his evoking of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" is right on. This is not about...

Oh ye seekers and defenders of truth and right, have a look at this Glenn Greenwald story on David Barstow's Pulitzer-winning investigat...

We don't report or comment much on "As the Anglican World Turns" here since plenty of other bloggers do, but the one and only ...

This news is all the more shocking because I have heard Ms. Saberi on the radio many times. As regular readers of Acts of Hope know, I am p...

The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 3, 1968, before MLK gave the last speech of his life. Photo: Ken Ross via Ameri...

...is me, whirled into the Facebook vortex. I have succumbed.

A good op-ed on the need for a stimulus package for the arts in the new administration, by an old friend of the Acts of Hope family whose wo...

It's Saturday night at home with cat and catch-up. Also rest, food, music, and a little writing. NPR Girl has the radio on, of course. I...

I just turned on "Talk of the Nation" on NPR and +Gene Robinson will be on the show. The lead was about the fact that his prayer d...

Post this widely, friends. Here is a YouTube of Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial, with related reporting ...

(First two paragraphs slightly edited from a comment over at PJ's.) Yesterday at my "other church" (the one where I am three S...

The Acts of Hope family had some fond moments of remembrance for colleague Hugh Mulligan this weekend during our little reunion. At least on...

Here we are again , on a Friday evening, having watched Bill Moyers . The show ended early because of the public television fund-raiser. Ton...