Thanks for an excellent profile, and thanks to Bill McKibben for his powerful thought leadership and inspiring activism on this most important of issues.
I'm active on this issue in part today because of McKibben's original New Yorker articles, which made an indelible impression.
We are all in his debt.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
By the end of the year, Rutland will receive 100 new residents, said Reverend Lise Sparrow, pastor at Guilford's United Church of Christ. Most of them will be women and children, and all of them will be resettled refugees from Syria. Sparrow will join representatives from other Windham and Windsor county UCC churches, and other faith communities, at a presentation at the United Church of Bellows Falls on Oct. 23 to discuss the refugees' arrival and how southern Vermont community...
In 1930, in Marion, Indiana, two lifeless black bodies in ragged and tattered clothes hung from separate tree branches, their faces and bodies beaten and bloody. Below them, a separate crowd of well-dressed white men and women stood smiling and looking at the corpses. Not one person had an expression of sorrow or remorse - not a single hint of regret. Such racism, the blatant disregard for human dignity, persists because one group holds tight to its power, refusing another...
“The most important thing for a photographer is to make your subject feel comfortable in your presence,” said David Shaw, a Dummerston-based filmmaker and photographer and co-director of the Mark Shaw Archive. He said that trust and level of comfort was what led Jacqueline Kennedy to ask for Mark Shaw to be the photographer for a photo essay on her and her family for Life magazine in 1959. But David Shaw said she had another reason for asking for his...
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