“Has anyone ever punched you in the face?” The question caught me off guard as I walked an overdue children’s book to the library this morning. I noticed the guy walking the opposite direction on the sidewalk as I came to a stoplight. It was hard not to notice him for a couple of reasons.… Continue reading And He Walked the Other Way

This morning, our daughter woke us up with a tinge of sadness in her voice. “I needed to wear brown to school today and I don’t have any brown”, she said. Thankfully, our son had a brown shirt (that was also clean) and the crisis was averted. Read the rest of the story on Medium.com

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On October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, released a declaration on the Catholic church’s relationship to non-Christian religions.  It was a groundbreaking and still-relevant declaration on interfaith engagement and relationship across lines of religious difference.  This should be no surprise, since nostra aetate means “in…

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This post originally appeared on Medium. I hope you find it as inspiring as others seem to have in that community. https://medium.com/@jroberteagan/a-love-story-49dc195d6646

This post originally appeared on Medium.com There’s nothing radical about violence. Violence is pedestrian. Violence is weakness. Violence is the way things have always been. In the beginning… The Hebrew Scriptures tell us a story of how violence came into being. Two brothers, Cain and Abel, got into a fight over religiously motivated jealousy. Apparently,… Continue reading Reclaiming Radical

This post originally appeared on Extranewsfeed.com On Saturday, June 10, an anti-Muslim, non-profit organization called Act for America is encouraging people in various places throughout the United States to participate in a “March Against Sharia”. Act for America would balk at being called anti-Muslim. They claim they are working to confront terrorism, empowering women and… Continue reading Peacemaking as Counter-Protest