Joan Chittister

A Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, Joan Chittister is a best-selling author and well-known international lecturer on topics of justice, peace, human rights, women's issues and contemporary spirituality in the church and in society. She presently serves as the co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organization of the United Nations, facilitating a worldwide network of women peace builders, especially in the Middle East. Chittister has won 14 CPA awards for her books. Her most recent include Between the Dark and the Daylight (Random House), Two Dogs and a Parrot (Blue Bridge, 2015) and In God’s Holy Light (Franciscan Media, 2015). A biography, Joan Chittister: Her journey from certainty to faith, by NCR’s Tom Roberts, was released in 2015 by Orbis Books. Chittister is the founder and executive director of Benetvision, a resource center for contemporary spirituality in Erie.

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Chittister calls for formal censure of President Trump

Let the call be heard

Make America America again

The nuclear option and the potential loss of democracy

The normalization of insanity

Is there anything left in which we can all believe?

The real electoral problem may lie within us

A Thanksgiving Day prayer in a riven land

US election's very essence was indecency

Leadership is lacking in this election cycle

In behalf of the human family

The learning of two different cultures

'Get on board or get out of the way' is not policy

When did we confuse freedom of speech with the freedom to be rude?

The United States is having an identity crisis

Ordination of married men would cause other major changes within the church

Two paths to peace: the secular and the sacred

Whose artificial intelligence should we be worrying about?

The forgotten voices of war crying out in the dark

The question is: What's the difference?

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