Tens of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women marched for peace

And why wouldn’t we hear about this? Because war makes money. Peace is cheap. You can read more here. And thanks, Cynical, for the link.

How will you honor the Rev. King?

Jac sends these links — this one and this one — about how people will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, whose official birthday is coming up on Monday. I really love the effort in “Kentuckiana,” creating 40 days of peace around Dr. King’s birthday.  

Seventy years and a day after the bombing of Hiroshima:

This is what the Rev. George Zabelka, the Air Force chaplain who blessed the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said: As a Catholic chaplain I watched as the Boxcar, piloted by a good Irish Catholic pilot, dropped the bomb on Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, the center of Catholicism in Japan. I never preached a single …

Prayers for the Sikhs, and prayers for the rest of us, too.

On Sunday, a gunman went into a Wisconsin Sikh temple and shot and killed six Sikhs before he was shot and killed, himself, by a police officer arriving at the scene. One of the quotes from a family member was that when he heard of the death of his loved one, “the heart just sat …