To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

We are interconnected.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.