As a Christian, I reflect and pray often on peace and how to achieve it inwardly and outwardly. I confess that both are a struggle for me, and on my best days any success of either is halfbaked.

Although it does not mention the word specifically – this is a story about peace. It is also one of the best Christmas stories you'll read this year.

The Sock & Awe fundraiser Saturday in downtown Saratoga Springs raised $31 for the Iraqi refuge fund – not bad considering that downtown was a ghost town at the time.

Peace Works, a local affinity group, will be holding a "Sock and Awe" fundraiser this Saturday, from noon to 1 p.m. in front of the Saratoga Springs Post Office, Broadway and Church, for widows and orphans of those killed in Iraq.

I read with interest Carl Strock's column on the top issues presented by Saratogians at the Masie Center during one of the “village green meetings” being held nationwide for ordinary folks to let President-elect Obama know what they think his top priorities should be. They listed health care and the ...

The five convicted Ghosts of the Iraq War were sentenced by Judge Morin in D.C. Superior court on Monday.

The Capital District has a new peace resource dedicated to creating peace, both inner and outer, in the founding of an intentional community in Milton.

The five people convicted in the March 12 “Ghosts of the Iraq War” Senate action will be sentenced Monday in D.C. Superior Court – or not if Max Obuszewski's motion to impeach the testimony of Eric Orsini given in the Nov. 7 evidentiary hearing is successful.

Today, my daily papers ran a story on Condoleezza Rice playing a piano recital for Queen Elizabeth II yesterday. Well isn't that lovely?

Several blogs ago I promised to write more on Thomas Merton's prediction of the assassination of President Kennedy, and since the 45th anniversary of his murder just passed on November 22, this is about the best time to make good on that promise.