I write this op-ed as the Co-Founder of Bioearth, home of the One Billion for Peace pledge, which defines sustainable peace as entailing "the physical, material, psychological, cultural/religious, and ecological wellbeing of all peoples" (www.bioearth.org). In 2023, the Presbyterian Church USA (the denomination of which Unbound is housed) became a leading signatory of the pledge, joining Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, neo-Pagan, and other Protestant faith organizations and individuals on six continents committed to pursuing this goal of sustainable peace. As a co-leader of this global movement, the macro-view afforded by the sustainable peace framework leads me to be deeply concerned about the United States' conflict with Iran, which by any commonsense definition deserves the title "war" (even though there was no opportunity for the US Congress to declare
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I am sitting on a damp log in the woods, sobbing my eyes out. It is early spring in upstate New York where four of my best friends laugh loudly, throwing sticks around, exploring under rocks, eating cucumbers. We are listening to the waterfall, the dry, early spring leaves all around us. Like every other person in the city, I long for the wilderness, and that once or twice a year I find myself there, I weep. I feel it- can you? What this used to be, what it could have been. How much have we lost? I am mourning, mourning, mourning. This feeling- it is a gut punching, sickening, grief that comes like a wave, soaking me wet on a day that was already cold.
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The decades of occupation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government and the current genocide of Palestinians is something no one can ignore, especially people of faith. Our faith moves us to call out the injustices of our world, the killing of thousands of people, and governments that take advantage
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In June, we moved to San Diego, and I stepped away from being a pastor. I’ve still built connections with clergy, and a recent meeting with one pastor stuck out. We talked about following up, and he said, “Reach back out in January.” It was December 1. Caught off guard
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For 31 consecutive weeks, Israelis have taken to the streets, mostly in Tel Aviv, to protest the decision by the current right-wing government of Israel to initiate an overhaul of its judicial system. Israel’s “Unreasonableness Law” is a measure that removes the courts’ power to overturn decisions made by Israel’s
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