“Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” — Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize laureate in literature, school leader and teacher Every year, the first …

This month marked a Civil Rights Movement anniversary: the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960. People often forget that children and young people were major front-line soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Six- …

In 2020, when the start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a holy season like no other, Pope Francis published an Easter Sunday letter directed to movements and organizations working for justice for people with low incomes and those experiencing poverty. He …

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we …

Now that Women’s History Month has concluded, there’s been one more broad attack on methods of sharing our nation’s history: On March 27, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order affecting the 21 museums and 14 education and research centers …

An Idaho middle school teacher recently made headlines for refusing to take down a classroom poster she said she was told was “controversial” and “an opinion.” The poster shows a drawing of hands in many different skin tones, each with a red heart in the …

… to support and protect young children. The Children’s Defense Fund  ( … You’ve been in the child advocacy world a long time … I want for everybody’s children. Marian Wright Edelman, founder of CDF, has … works at CDF has a Marian Wright Edelman story. In 1989 I …

Sixty years ago, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams set out on a nonviolent march with a group of 600 men, women, young people and children headed from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. They were seeking the …

… see,” the children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman said. Maybe a child in the …

As a child, the great theologian Howard Thurman treasured spending time alone under a beloved oak tree in his yard: “I could sit my back against its trunk, and feel the same peace that would come to me in my bed at night. I could reach down in the quiet …