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By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

 Many remember the victorious results of the world’s South Africa boycott movement of the 1980s. Ever-mounting pressure forced the apartheid leadership’s hand, leading to a national change of course, enabling it to find a way to achieve integrity for...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

 What, after all, is the purpose of higher education, if not to debunk hateful myths, that continue, like Furies, to haunt us with debasing beliefs of our fellow human beings?Racism, alive and as ugly as ever, leads the ruthless madness, conjuring up...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

Since you must know that hundreds of thousands of displaced women, children, and elderly of war-ravaged Gaza face cruel, imminent deaths due to starvation and infectious disease brought on by the relentless bombardment by the Israel Defense Forces,...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

Friends, soon after our atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 (and Nakasaki, three days later), citizen-activists, who later came to Northampton, began calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.A young Dr. Thomas Crowe was...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

Amid the ruinous aftermath of the first Civil War, in 1868, Anne Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia conceived the idea of setting aside a day for a badly wounded nation to begin to heal, by arranging for grieving mothers of the Confederacy and of the...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

According to one Biblical Easter account, when Jesus appeared to his followers, now frightened that Roman crucifixion would be their fate as well, his first word to them is one that is spoken to this day as a greeting across the world by three of the...

By THE REV. PETER KAKOS

As the death toll on the borders of Turkey and Syria surpasses 40,000, millions more reel from the shock, as they are made aware of their loved ones suddenly gone before awaking. Addressing this kind of heartbreaking loss, a geologist once commented...