Here's a brand of evil we can stop

Cathleen Falsani, religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, has this nice piece comparing our ability to stop the kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq with our ability to stop the genocide in Sudan. She writes, "Call it the lesser of two evils, but it may be easier to stop institutionalized violence, such as genocide, than the random acts of a few crazed sociopaths." She suggests actions you can take to make a difference, and ends on this note:

I've been taught that we are all God's children, beloved equally by our creator, and that we all are also our brother's keepers.

Africa is our family. We have a moral responsibility to ensure its welfare and protection, both as individual people and as a nation that would like to be a moral voice in this fallen world of ours.

It is impossible to do everything, to stamp out evil everywhere that it appears.

But what we can do, we must.