Apropos now is the famous WWII-era poem by German pastor Martin Niemöller, "First They Came." It's too long to quote, but to condense — "First they came for the Communists, but I wasn't a Communist so ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about Martin Niemöller lately. The name of this German Lutheran pastor might not ring a bell, but you are likely familiar with his most famous work. Published as a prose ...

In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on indifference. Was that the whole reason? In the dire months since Donald Trump’s ...

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a closeted young gay man who endured watching service members accused of being LGBTQ ...

Since the Nov. 6, 1946 poem," First They Came," by Pastor Martin Niemöller has been in my head. Dreadful, dark thoughts swirled as I wondered if I wanted to live in this world where too many voters ...