(Photo Caption: The Raging Grannies sing at the 10th Annual Tax Day Rally (Photo: Neil Cosgrove) By Edith Bell Join us on Tuesday, April 17 from noon until 2pm for the 11th Annual […]
Tax Day April 17th
Art Saves Lives
(Photo provided by author) By Roy My Grandfather survived a genocide,”The Great Fire of Smyrna” of 1922. He fled to a nearby Greek island, Chios, losing a brother and parents. Occurring days […]
A Hellish Bargain
By Michael Drohan Review of book: Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green, 2017. Green’s book relives the events that catapulted Donald Trump to […]
Israel as Pharaoh: A Passover Reflection
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 […]
