I remember the terrifying photos of missile-laden Soviet ships steaming toward a U.S. naval blockade off the shores of Cuba in 1962. As U.S. President Kennedy (JFK) and Soviet Premier Khrushchev faced each other in a global game of chicken, the world held its breath and prayed for deliverance. The crisis confirmed my impression of Kennedy as a Cold Warrior who invented a nonexistent "missile gap" to justify the nuclear arms race, took us to the eve of destruction over Cuba, and sent the U.S. into the morass of the Vietnam War.

In a new book, JFK and the Unspeakable, Catholic theologian and peace activist Jim Douglass shows us a different Kennedy, born of the Cold War, but reborn and turning toward peace…

CPT has an immediate opening for a half-time person to provide financial and administrative support for our office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada…Contact Rebecca Johnson, CPT Canada Administrative Coordinator, at rebeccaj [at] cpt [dot] org with expressions of interest, and nominations by 15 February 2008. She will respond with application materials.