Loving kindness is common cause for the common good. It risked its own welfare in flagrantly aiding slaves in their desperate fleeing to freedom prior to emancipation. It sat at segregated lunch counters while being spat upon and punched. It motivates cities and churches to show humane consideration to potential deportees. [Read More]
Bipartisan Budget Baloney
I’m praying a coalition of conservatives and progressives will move us beyond business-as-usual, even though the former seem to love swords more than plowshares, and the latter have yet to show much potential as budget hawks. We can learn. [Read More]
White Squad boosts big government spending for Trump
The political landscape will shift if progressives challenge this budget deal and use the opportunity to advance fiscal responsibility. Taxpayers win when humanitarian aims are coupled with cuts in corrupt spending, adherence to balanced budgets, and aversion to the debt industry. [Read More]
Taxpayers need stronger oversight of border policies
Social justice requires smart stewardship, and we need to make sure resources are not wasted. This spending bill offers a critical learning opportunity. [Read More]
The Clubhouse
America has forever stumbled on the all in all men are created equal. Why? Because there is a WHITE MALES ONLY sign above the clubhouse door. Over two hundred years of bitter struggle have gone into tearing down this sign. [Read More]
Leave a light on
Folks from every corner of the country had heard the name and knew its mission. I’ve lost count of the number of times a visitor told me their first stop during a visit to Manzanita was to CARTM.
Jamal and the Crown Predators
The wise men hold a magical place in the nativity story. They were not members of the religion into which Christ was born, yet they travelled far to pay him homage. Call them gentiles, infidels, pagans, or simply the others. Their knowledge nevertheless conveyed a deep understanding of his humble-yet-cosmic birth. [Read More]
Here after the politician’s funeral
In death he became bigger than life, a champion for our collective conscience. Apparently many of his peers think a bright memorial spotlight can repel corrupting night-bugs from our body politic.
Efecto Mariposa
“Great nations aren’t made of friendly
flowers,” tweets a vainglorious beast. His
words deal in luxuriant greed and smell like
bacon to believers.”
Survivors Lead us Beyond the Gunfire
As spring’s door opened young activists organized hundreds of rallies and marches, speaking through tears of grief to multitudes who are fed up with darkness. [Read More]
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