Oct 9, 2012
Did an interview with Barbara Bradley Hagerty for All Things Considered on NPR. It should be airing today,… http://t.co/3fcVuWki #May 14, 2011
On May 11, I spoke on a panel at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, with Professor Vincent Harding and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Sidney Burris, moderator of the panel, began by asking the three of us to share what led us onto the path of nonviolence, and he...Oct 18, 2010
I recently read Walter Long’s small pamphlet An Art of Small Resurrections: Surviving the Texas Death Chamber. Long works as a defense attorney for death row inmates in Texas. In the pamphlet, he asks: “Can those of us who come from the Christian tradition primarily...Jul 15, 2009
Here is good news to help further galvanize the Catholic troops who number 67 million strong in the US. Speaking in Mexico, the Pope issued a clear statement against the death penalty: One cannot insist enough on the fact that the right to life must be recognized...Jul 13, 2009
For weeks I’ve been writing about all the changes that came to the Catholic Church through Vatican Council II in the ’60s – especially for us nuns, who were itching for the church to join the modern world. In just four short years we went from habited, blindly...Jun 17, 2009
Good news for New Orleans. We’re getting a new archbishop Gregory Aymond, who worked actively and visibly in Austin, TX to end the death penalty. He’s coming to Louisiana at a good time. The LA Supreme Court is doing its best to expedite executions,...Jun 16, 2009
Arrived at San Benito Monastery yesterday for a summer of writing. Feels good to be off the road a while to hunker down and write my new book, River of Fire. In it I give a step by step account of how I evolved from being a nun sealed off from the (wicked) world, only...Jan 19, 2009
“Give us tears…give us anger…” Bishop Gene Robinson delivered the invocation at the kickoff event for Obama’s inauguration. I am thankful for his words, which I am committing to memory. I want to quote the entire text of his invocation:...Sep 28, 2006
Exciting news! Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It and president of Sojourners magazine has started a new blog called God’s Politics. He’s invited a bunch of us to contribute to the...Sep 15, 2006
The last post I wrote was a clarification about the ad that ran in the New York Times on August 3. If you haven’t read it yet, please look at it. This post will make a lot more sense to you then, and keep me from having to rehash it. Suffice it to say, the next time I...