Active Peace Anniversary and Evolution

Active Peace Anniversary and Evolution

It’s been a year since Active Peace was published and I started out on the book tour.  What a year it’s been and how blessed I am to be able to continue promoting this approach to seeing the big picture and healing the violence and insanity. It is gratifying that so...
Straight Talk on Spiritual Activism

Straight Talk on Spiritual Activism

Here’s some straight talk about spiritual activism in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 88th birthday. I’ll start with a little story. A colleague in the nonviolent activism world was offering me support on my book tour this summer and fall. As she reached out...
Gathering the Peacemakers

Gathering the Peacemakers

Welcome to a new year that promises to be filled with rich opportunities for peacemakers the world over. And we sure do need the peacemakers now! I want to share a model for coming together that we’re using in Boulder, CO in case it might inspire you to do something...
A Season of Nonviolence

A Season of Nonviolence

By A Season of Nonviolence, I’m referring less to Christmas/Solstice/Hannukkah than I am to our engaged citizenship in the opening months of 2017. The energy we bring to our activism (our way of being) is much more important than what we do, and how we engage early on...
Post Election Reflection

Post Election Reflection

While there’s no shortage of post-election opinionating, I want to offer my own, Active Peace oriented response. As I was flying back to the U.S. yesterday from Canada, I opened up my passport and noticed a quote on one of the inside pages by Dwight D. Eisenhower:...