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...
24 May, 2022
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.
12 Mar, 2022
Life goes on, right?
I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
4 Mar, 2022
The frailty of peace in the midst of war
The frailty of peace in the midst of war by Robert C. Koehler 857 words Prior to any analysis of...
24 Feb, 2022
Creating peace means changing the world??
Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Get the bad guy! Russia: bad. If it invades Ukraine, such a “voluntary war of aggression,” according to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, “would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences.”
17 Feb, 2022
Afghanistan on the brink of disaster??
Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war. And you don’t need bombs to play.
11 Feb, 2022
The court of ecological awareness??
Pssst . . . here’s a little secret. Don’t tell anyone, OK? It might cause trouble. In recent years, there have been more than a thousand lawsuits filed around the world — including a few in the United States — challenging corporate or governmental negligence about climate change and ecosystem damage.