By Manoj Jain Special to The Commercial Appeal On Tuesday night, I sat with my children at the Sikh temple in Cordova and wondered what triggered Wade Michael Page to massacre six people at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc. Though no one will know for sure, this much seems certain: Page had the seeds of [...]

Thursday evening my teenage daughter asked me to help her review for an AP US Government exam on the Bill of Rights. That she was studying the first amendment and the freedom of religion seemed fortuitous: the following morning I was to board an early morning flight from our home in Memphis to Washington to [...]

Since my childhood, I have believed that both petty and global conflicts can be resolved through the power of nonviolence. In school, when a kid bullied me, my parents told me, “Never hit back.” Since I was puny — 90 pounds in ninth grade — this strategy was my best option. My strategy worked. A [...]

Since my childhood I have been told that I was eccentric and impractical to deeply believe in the power of nonviolence as a solution to many of our global conflicts. Today, I would ask the skeptics to think otherwise. In school, when another kid bullied me, my parents told me, “Never, hit back.” Since I [...]