By MARIANNE NOVY   Since at least the early 1980s, anti-war activists, such as the Merton Center’s own Molly Rush and Sister Megan Rice, who visited Pittsburgh last summer, have tried to […]

By BETTE MCDEVITT If you stop in or call the Merton Center on a Friday morning, you’ll meet or speak with Lois Goldstein, a long time member and volunteer. Lois came to […]

By PETER ORESICK   I can’t hear when I am sleeping. I fear the stalker, the tomb robber, the contractor who measures my sleeping soul.   His hatred, my tomb.   Let […]

By ELISA OGOT Leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election, the advice many people gave to liberals who come from conservative families or have close relationships with conservatives was to talk to […]

By MARIANNE NOVY With the increased threats of deportation beginning in 2006, the Sanctuary Movement, active in the 1980s, has mobilized again as the New Sanctuary Movement. The director of New Sanctuary […]

By NEIL COSGROVE If participants in the Pittsburgh Housing Summit were certain of anything by the Summit’s conclusion on November 10th, it was that America’s market-based approach to providing its citizens with […]

By ISABELLE OUYANG As Pittsburgh gets chillier, the global temperature is set to rise. So apparent are the looming consequences of climate change that even the Trump administration admitted the fact in […]

By YAZMIN BENNETT-KELLY We live in a world where if people love, look, and/or pray differently they are treated differently. While it may seem that our country is becoming more divided, I […]

By ISABELLE OUYONG The cost of being a student increases year by year, but student wages haven’t kept up with expenses at the University of Pittsburgh. Workers across the nation have pressured […]

By ELISA OGOT When most people think of food insecurity, their minds may conjure up images of either younger children who rely on school food programs or older individuals living in shelters […]