As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.