Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights

What an agony we are going through this July... First we had the push toward Trump's big ugly bill passed on July 3, and now we're f...

  "Grant us wisdom, grant us courage / For the facing of this hour" wrote Harry Emerson Fosdick in 1930, composing lyrics for a hy...

  Katherine K. McTaggart   (1943-2012) Kathy McTaggart, champion for violence prevention Katherine McTaggart, better known around the co...

We are in dark days, but Carl Sandburg had a comment for us in times like these: "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go ...

  It’s a holy day     this November 5. The nation quavers, Butterflies pause and puzzle     at the energy in the air. Demons fly ...

Screen shot from MSNBC, Feb. 16, 2024 W e begin the season of Lent with the execution of an innocent man, a man like Jesus, who gave his lif...

We live in a different world since last Saturday, October 7. Guest essay by Nir Avishai Cohen, NYT The world mourns--well, some distract the...

What a fate--to be the talented sister of two famous brothers!  Katharine Wright, sister of Orville and Wilbur, is in the news this week bec...

Shireen Abu Akleh photo by Al Jezeera Media Network What's more important, the coronation of King Charles III or the one-year anniversar...

How is it possible that women are still being killed by men claiming they are witches? Read this report in the Daily Mail on December 5. A ...