Stones from the Creek

This morning I am thinking about fire and flood, earthquake and hurricane, war and genocide, impunity and extrajudicial murder. The new mo...

Act II of the Rogers and Hammerstein 1943 classic Oklahoma! opens with the song "The Farmer and the Cowman."  The song highlights ...

Sixteen years ago, in the weeks before 9/11, the Dream Act was introduced to give immigrant youth who had grown up in the US the opportunit...

People sometimes say that Donald Trump’s bluster and bombast is “red meat” for his base. I respectfully disagree. I think a better descript...

One hundred years ago today, August 2, 1917, hundreds of men in central Oklahoma -- white, Black and Native American; mostly young, mostly t...

I had heard of the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917 before.  It was mentioned in passing in histories of the US labor movement, histories of the...

Last Thursday we went to hear Krista Tippett speak at St. Vladimir's Seminary in Yonkers.  She was her usual eclectic self, drawing thou...