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Nature’s Wake Up Call
The problem also, for a majority of our society, believers and non-believers, is what some of
us call the “globalization of indifference.” In order to mitigate and reverse climate change we all
need to examine our thinking, our values and especially our daily routines.
War and Peace: Peacebuilding a Third Way
In her excellent book Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding, the respected Catholic moral theologian Lisa Cahill presents an alternative to halt to the just war tradition and Christian pacifism that she names “Peacebuilding.” Reflect: What aspect of peacebuilding is most challenging to me?
Wisdom Wednesday | June 5th
The famous quotation from Thomas Paine in 1776, “These are the times that try men’s souls,” is followed by the revolutionary statement, “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”