23 Jun, 2022
Good guys with guns?
Ready, aim, fire: “I believe in Jesus, guns and babies.” So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.
19 Jun, 2022
Embracing the complexity of peace
“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.” Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization ...
9 Jun, 2022
The collateral damage comes home
“They were at places that seemed safe — but few spaces in America are guaranteed safe anymore.”
2 Jun, 2022
Sexual assault and the American way
And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, cringing in shame upon the recent release of a “bombshell” report detailing two decades of sexual abuse by pastors and other church officials, along with ongoing official coverup of the crimes and denigration of any victims who had the courage to speak up...
27 May, 2022
Beyond gun control, we need hatred control
Another terrorist slips into the classroom, into the news. Does anyone understand this? Even if guns are easily, readily available, why, why, why? I find it impossible even to be angry — it’s hard to be angry under incomprehensible circumstances...
24 May, 2022
The heart is mightier than the sword
Sounds like a horror movie on permanent rewind through the brain, through the soul. Catch your breath, buy a gun...
12 May, 2022
Eve’s choice: Patriarchy no longer rules
“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’” — Genesis 2:18. RSV One chapter later, after Eve was held responsible for the First Sin (Adam, the submissive male, just did what she told him to), we have this:
5 May, 2022
A promise to our kids: We won’t kill you
A promise to our kids: We won’t kill you by Robert C. Koehler 1108 words At a certain point, as...
28 Apr, 2022
The global suicide budget
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no longer quite so relevant. Perhaps what he should have called it was a “cross of irony.”
22 Apr, 2022
Humanity: Evolving in spite of itself
As wars rage, as cruelty shatters lives across the planet — as nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think it’s time to claim some stunning awareness in this regard.
17 Apr, 2022
Nuclear weapons and cranial winter
Nuclear sanity: ultimate (or, God help us, immediate) disarmament. Nuclear insanity: ongoing development and deployment, endless investment, eventual (either accidental or intentional) use.
9 Apr, 2022
Standing together for the sacred
Standing together for the sacred by Robert C. Koehler 947 words The soul of humanity cries out from the crowded...
1 Apr, 2022
Save the planet, behead the military budget
Save the planet, behead the military budget by Robert C. Koehler 855 words Americans “need to imagine their vote has...
26 Mar, 2022
When Jim Crow greeted black veterans
I figured I’d better write this column while doing so is still legal (at least I think it is), but I don’t recommend reading it aloud in a third-grade classroom...
18 Mar, 2022
Transcending the certainties of war
Peace, in the deepest sense — in the midst of war — requires a clarity and courage well beyond the boundaries of linear understanding. The warning lights flash. World War III has entered the red zone.