Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.