Cassandra Conlin After euthanizing the fallen squirrel, James lifted it in his hands, carried it across the field, and said a prayer over it. “It was the marriage of fierceness and reverence that made this a profoundly religious act,” Levy-Lyons writes. More

Mondragón Corporation The Mondragón Cooperatives trace their roots back to Father Jose Maria Arizmendi, a visionary Catholic priest who founded a local polytechnic school. “In order to democratize the power, we must socialize the knowledge,” he said. More

“Which God Shall Rule?” Mammon (top) or the God spoken of by Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (below) when he said “placing ourselves on the side of the poor and attempting to give them life, we will know what the eternal truth of the Gospel consists of.” More

Tuvalu, a low-lying island in the Pacific Ocean, is already suffering the effects of rising seas due to climate change. Pleading with world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Tuvalu climate negotiator Ian Fry said, “The fate of my country rests in your hands.” Photo More

Jack Weinberg, a UC Berkeley student leader of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, sits in a police car after having been arrested for recruiting students to participate in civil rights demonstrations. “Never trust anyone over thirty” is said to have been coined by him after university officials More