Bill's Peace Blog

In the first century AD, a refugee from the war-torn Middle East, escaping civil unrest and religious persecution tried to reach Rome to sta...

I’ve been struggling with how to begin a discussion about Thomas Merton for some time now.  He is one of the people of the 20 th century t...

I keep trying to write a post, and I keep getting thrown off.  I’ve limited myself to a small number of topics; refer to a few posts back. ...

5 months ago, in Arusha, Tanzania, the parties to the South Sudanese civil war signed an accord designed to bring peace and reconciliation t...

When I revived this blog, I was determined to give it a little more breadth.  I decided that I would break some of the talking a break, esp...

To understand why Baltimore became violent in April, 2015, one needs to understand some basic facts about the city.  It seems clear to me t...

Let me start this piece off with a bit of a complaint.  As news consumers, Americans have such a short attention span that major, long-tren...