Welcoming the Stranger
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres poses with some of the participants in the Dialogue on Faith and Protection. UNHCR photo/ J M Ferré Following a ‘Dialogue on Faith…
Kolkata – Tiwari’s Story
Tiwari, a friend of the Bow Bazar community of Brothers, spent some time one Saturday morning sharing his spirituality with them. He told this story of Lord Vishnu, who was…
Chant, Prayer and Justice
Sometimes we wonder about the connection between prayer and doing the work of justice. Scrabbling around on the Internet this morning searching for a prayer resource I came across a…
The Courage to Die Well
These days the media has been focused, at least in the UK, on the tragic death of Jade Goody, a reality TV celebrity, who when diagnosed with cancer decided to…
Bist du bei mir
Solidarity, one of the great words of the last century when we still believed that humanity was fundamentally on an upward trajectory towards the Kingdom of God, social justice, the…
About Hope and History
Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day. Except, here in Geneva, it did not feel like St. Patrick’s Day. There were some token efforts in the Irish pubs. But no parades down…