Worth remembering as an election looms and my mailbox overflows and the ads reach saturation points: “policy” is a means, not an end. The former lobbyist in me needs the reminder occasionally. Journalist Kathryn Jean Lopez always provides edifying reading, and she has often made the point that getting a bill passed is not theContinue reading “A means, not an end”
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Pro-life women have been disinvited from a “Women’s March”
Telling pro-life women to shut up and go away is a waste of time. Some people who don’t get that are about to be enlightened. The “Women’s March” on Washington has rejected participation by New Wave Feminists, who are pro-life. First, the organizers ignored NWF, then just a couple of days ago agreed to list themContinue reading “Pro-life women have been disinvited from a “Women’s March””
Merton on activism and “the real hope”
I’m indebted to Frank Weathers at Patheos for bringing Thomas Merton’s Letter to a Young Activist to my attention. The Patheos post came just after the 2012 election, after I had been a staff member on a statewide political campaign that fell short. Merton’s words were just what I needed to hear and ponder. IContinue reading “Merton on activism and “the real hope””
Ellen Kolb 