Acts of Hope

The following essay appeared in the March 10, 1989 issue of the Catholic lay-edited magazine Commonweal under the title "When the Spiri...

21 March 1960. Remember.

... and editing, in those rare summer moments of quiet and solitude of which I get so little during the year. Also mowing the lawn, griping ...

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...

I received this letter a few days ago from the Fellowship of Reconciliation: Did you know that the first civil rights "freedom ride...

This isn't really about John Updike, may he rest in peace, but about the descriptions of John Updike on the radio. I found myself yellin...

If anyone still lives under the delusion that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. only spoke of holding hands and singing Kumbaya, that per...

HBO rebroadcast of this afternoon's "We Are One" event at the Lincoln Memorial (an American liturgy if I ever saw one) is sup...

Read this . Good companion to the white privilege piece . Hat tip to janinsanfran . 45 days. Brought to you by your daily ¡Si, se puede! A...

Tim Wise nails it, once again. This Is Your Nation on White Privilege by Tim Wise 9/13/08 Original is here . For those who still can't g...

I've mentioned before that a group of us have been planning a one-day conference on the racial history (particularly slavery and the Ji...

And please, no misogynist comments. Even those of us who have not been supporting Senator Clinton's candidacy have come to her defense w...

Well, palate-cleanser in one way -- at least it's a break from the brouhaha over Pastor Wright and a call to examine our double standard...

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers . -Bayard Rustin. We are entering Reading Days, which come before Finals, exce...

Thank you, Salon. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

It was fabulous. It was packed. I have to lead a Bible study on the prophet Amos at 7 p.m. and I am not ready (because I was prepping for t...

The conference in Atlanta was very, very fine. I then spent some time with two friends, one after the other. The first was a friend who was ...

We are being SO Southern. One of my students and I are off to a conference tomorrow (an annual gig for professors and scholars of religious...

This is the speech we need to read, or listen to, today. The link has both text and audio. I've put this up on all the course websites ...

Important op-ed by Gloria Steinem in today's New York Times . I'm pasting the whole thing here since you might have trouble with t...