by Mark Beckwith | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Many years ago I took my family to the July 4th festivities at Old Sturbridge Village, an historical replica of a colonial town in central Massachusetts. The highlight of the day was the reading of the Declaration of Independence from a podium on the town common. A...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the last few days the country, if not the world, has had a crash course in bunker buster bombs, ever since three of them literally crashed down on a nuclear weapons development facility in Fordow, Iran. Delivered by a stealth B2 bomber, the pretext, subtext and...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
No permanent allies. No permanent enemies. That was a foundational mantra of a ten day community organizing training that I received nearly 40 years ago. It was a new idea for me, and I struggled with it. Growing up during the height of the cold war, I had been...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have recently engaged my mind in a paradox that both strengthens my resolve and soothes my soul. Love more. Resist more. Normally it is thought that loving and resisting need to be kept separate from one another: you can’t love someone or something you...
by Mark Beckwith | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 2008, toward the end of a three-day retreat in Canterbury Cathedral for about 700 Episcopal and Anglican bishops from around the world, Archbishop Rowan Williams finished his brilliant presentation on love and grace, and then asked us to reach out to another. Find...
by Mark Beckwith | May 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
“A preferential option for the poor” became a foundational component of Catholic Social teaching when the term was first issued by Latin American Catholic leaders and theologians in the mid-1960s. The phrase echoed the many admonitions from Jesus as recorded in the...
