Three types of peace: ‘Eleazar and Daniel are Christmas’
“PEACE is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the...
View Article#MeToo: Changing the culture of violence towards women’s safety and respect
“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and...
View Article“Why our faith is the faith of the unexpected, a religion of surprise”
“But that is the way God gives. His gifts are never quite what we expect, but always something better than we hoped for. We can only dream of things too good to be true; God has a habit of giving...
View ArticleThe Washington Post, Pentagon Papers and Katharine Graham
“Few individuals have plumbed the depths of their rage, hatred, terror, jealousy, and despair or the scope of their wisdom and power of their compassion, yet these currents run beneath the surface of...
View ArticleNew Year’s opportunity to set our souls on fire
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A...
View ArticleAmerica’s battle for soul: Why immigration reform must be inclusive
[Editor’s note: A version of this column was previously published in the Los Angeles Asian Journal Weekend Edition on Jan. 25, 2014. We are reprinting given the current debate on immigration.]...
View ArticleA vein that beats with love for America
“I see the failure of the GOP (Republican Party) to act as the deepest form of betrayal, not simply of this nation and her people, but of all those sharing this planet who have been dependent on this...
View ArticleA first-person encounter with Pete Souza, former chief White House photographer
“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be...
View ArticleDr. Peter Bretan’s transcendent desire to save lives and help others reach...
Snippets of his medical mission services with PMSNC – 2017-2018 Part I of II Series The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a...
View ArticleCascading waterfalls of American volunteers’ depths of humanity: Dr. Peter...
Part II of II Series “Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only...
View ArticleWhat do you do with the mad that you feel?
“Righteous anger is usually not about oneself. It is about those whom one sees being harmed and whom one wants to help,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “in short, righteous anger is a tool of justice,...
View ArticleMothers and daughters: Cynthia Bonta’s legacy is Lisa Bonta Sumii and Malaya...
“When you are your whole self/ intact with body, mind and soul/The divine spirit of work flows through your being/Just close your eyes and listen in deep silence/And you shall hear an inner...
View ArticleWomen authors: Writing is the intersectional expression of their...
Part I of II “I think writing somehow reduces natural selfishness. That we can do without many things – do not have to own what we enjoy—is quite liberating. It allows us to share more, to be...
View ArticleWomen authors: Writing is the intersectional expression of their...
(Continued from last week, Part II of II) “Not till many years later would I meet again, one evening in San Francisco, my Stanford professor Wallace Stegner. The Wheatland Foundation had organized...
View ArticleRev. Fr. Rodel Balagtas: ‘There are no exceptions to holiness’
“Moses learned that God makes no exceptions for holiness. When God sets forth a requirement of His people, He most certainly demands it of the leaders. God wanted to make Moses’ life a highway of...
View ArticleBoni Alvarez: A Filipino-American playwright’s insights on culture, identity...
“Who are you? Who am I? You are the truth teller. When you die to your old self, you enter into a new realm, physically feel your body, the drama of its fall, the healing of past traumas, including...
View ArticleDr. Marlene Cordero: Engaging humanity with her brand of empathy
“Religion begins in the sensation that your life makes sense within a larger one, that you and the animals have a bond, that the trees and rocks and rivers are to the body of the world as your bones...
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