Thursday is “Fast for Darfur” day. Millions around the world will join the Save Darfur Coalition and Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) in a one-day fast to demonstrate the breadth of support for stopping genocide in Darfur. This marks intensified efforts internationally to 1) encourage President Bush to offer his personal leadership in support…

Over the past four days, the storm over Rep. Mark Foley’s improper and salacious emails and predatory behavior toward teenage male Congressional pages has taken on tidal wave proportions. Foley resigned from Congress only hours after the initial stories on Friday, Saturday’s news was of alleged House leadership cover-ups, and by Sunday House Speaker Hastert…

The latest news on Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., Congressional leadership, North Korea, Darfur, Rep. Foley, the Amish school tragedy, the Mideast, Iraq, and Iran. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Vindicated by history. Activist Ousted From Vanderbilt Is Back, as a Teacher – “ … Rev. James M. Lawson…

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and…

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