By Ken Boas Has Israel, the promised land for so many Jews all over the world, become a land of oppression and cruelty? Have the Palestinians become the people now waiting, after […]
DuBois and the Social Gospel
By Jim McCarville W.E.B. DuBois, the eminent sociologist, may be the most influential African-American political leader in the first half of the 20th century, but his contribution to theology is often overlooked. […]
Food Programs Under Threat: SW PA Bread for the World Workshop, April 15
By Joyce Rothermel Domestic and international food programs are being threatened with severe budget cuts. The proposed Trump budget for 2019 would devastate the US food and nutrition safety net known as […]
The Creation Mystic: Thomas Merton’s Invitation to Know Living Things
(Photo: America Magazine) By Carol Gonzalez “Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. Turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. Water plants in time. Continue this labor and […]
Panel to Discuss Proposed Toxic Cracker Plant
By Wanda Guthrie How will our city be impacted by the proposed upwind petrochemical plants? Can we afford to accept Allegheny County’s rank as in the top 1% of cancer rates ? […]
The Korean War: Convenient Forgetting
By Michael Drohan Review of Book: The Korean War by Bruce Cumings, 2010 The Korean War is often referred to as “the forgotten war,” a name which was first used in an […]
The Insanity of the Nuclear Enterprise
By Michael Drohan Daniel Ellsberg, the author of The Doomsday Machine:Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, is best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1972, which revealed many of […]
Death in Donora; Episode 1
The 1939 Donora High School yearbook baseball team photo features Hall of Famer Stan Musial (top row, second from left) and Buddy Griffey (front row, at left), the grandfather of Mariners great […]
Learning to Think Black?
By Marianne Novy Rev. Al Lingo, a Protestant minister, spoke this February 9 at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to members of Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN) Southwest, seminarians, and others about his journey […]
Lenten Speaker, Sr. Carol Zinn Pittsburgh, Sunday, March 18
Photo: Sisters of Saint Joseph of Philadelphia All are invited to participate in the upcoming talk by Sr. Carol Zinn on deepening one’s desire to choose the way of the Christian Gospel […]
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