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• Will Violence Have the Last Word at Fort Hood?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  Like so many across our country, I have been reeling about the news coming out of Ft. Hood, TX.  A friend and fellow conscientious objector, who is also co-founder of Centurion’s Guild , informed me via text message shortly after the…
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• Here’s a Link to Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  In case you’re interested .
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• Twenty Years Ago Today

  
  Isak — Authority: 434
  ... The first hole was broken in the Berlin Wall, cutting through a city and a continent that had been too long divided into "East" and "West." The Wall was one of the twentieth centurys most destructive metaphors. Today, the site of the Brandenburg Gate is a beautiful  pedestrianplaza marked by large openings ...
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• Speaking: Gabriel García Márquez

  
  Isak — Authority: 434
  Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change? ... we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia ...
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• A wonderful story for young adults of any age

  
  Tostada Speaks — Authority: 108
  Review of “Habibi” , by Naomi Shihab Nye. Mass Market Paperback. Simon Pulse, 1997. Naomi Shihab Nye brings her poets voice to this touching story about 14 year old Liyana Abboud and her family as they move from St. Louis, Missouri to Palestine, where her father, a physician, was born and raised. The move ...
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• Nilin markes 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall by taking down the wall on their land

  
  PalCast — Authority: 122
  The protest in Nilin was held today to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which has been declared an international day of action against Israel’s barrier. 300 demonstrators managed to topple a part of the eight-meter tall concrete wall that cuts through the village’s land. Since Israel ...
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• Iranian dissident wins award

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The exiled Iranian dissident and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo has been awarded the 2009 Peace Prize by Spain’s Association for the United Nations. The award recognizes his intellectual contribution to advancing non-violence both as philosophy and political strategy.“I feel like it means I’m on the right path ...
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• Hoodwinked by War

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 121
      We are so deeply saddened by the tragic taking and horrible loss of life at Ft. Hood, Texas. Our grief-filled hearts go out to all who are personally touched by this madness.   The lesson we take is that none of us can live in a world of war and injustice and stay sane. The tools of a warfare ...
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• A Biblical Case for Christian Pacifism: The Sermon on the Mount II

  
  Levellers — Authority: 417
  Sorry it took so long to get to this entry, Gentle Readers.  I was interrupted by the move..  I argued that Jesus does not teach impossibly hard ideals in the Sermon on the Mount. Despite the New Moses typology in Matthew’s Gospel (Jesus goes up on a high mountain to deliver the new teachings), this is not “new ...
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• Fort Hood Shootings and the Prophetic ‘IF’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  One reader wrote me to ask: ” “What effect will the Fort Hood shootings have on the American public’s perception of Islam?” That question asks us to be foretellers, fortune tellers, to predict. But The Shalom Center has had the holy…
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• The cost of war

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 121
  The news of the day has been unbelievable.   Again our headlines read about the numbers dead and the numbers wounded.  Again commentators and talk show guests speculate about motives and reasons.  The reports of numbers begin to desensitize us to the reality of death and the loss of human life.   Tonight news ...
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• TIRED OF WAR

  
  Bikehiker — Authority: 125
  Doing somethingconstructive with war grief   I am grieving for allfamilies who lost or had loved ones wounded at Fort Hood on Thursday. May theGod of comfort help them cope with their terror and loss and pain and anger.   Iam grieving for all families who lose or have loved ones wounded in ...
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• A Foretaste of my Review of Campbell’s “Deliverance of God” (2)

  
  Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia — Authority: 481
  Campbell on the Nonviolent Paul One of the real gems in T he Deliverance of God is an excursus entitled “The Case—Briefly—against Coercive Violence in Paul” (pp. 89-94). It is offered in as an argument for the superiority of Campbell’s “alternative theory” to “Justification theory” because the ...
  4 days ago

• Civil*Shooter

  
  the propeace community — Authority: 117
  Civil*Shooter Aiming to inflict the atrocity of horror-stricken harm, For the grievance of afflicted injustices, Seeking recognition of cruelty endured, Endowed with a morality of them and us, The shooter, unlocked and loaded, Fires directly unto the heart of social responsibility, read more »
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• VANDENBERG MP’s GONE WILD

  
  Vandenberg Witness — Authority: 103
  Three people were arrested on November 4 during the monthly peace vigil at Vandenberg AFB main gate.  Dennis Apel again was cited for a “ban and bar” violation. Two other vigilers in the designated protest area were arrested for not identifying themselves with ID.  One, Bud Booth, 84 year old veteran of WWII ...
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• Witness and vigil at Fort Benning

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 129
  Join the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship on November 20-22 at Fort Benning in Columbus, GA. They will be part of the annual event to close the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation training facility. This years event will also call for an end to military aid to Mexico and Colombia, and will ...
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• The Morning After: A (Short) Word

  
  Isak — Authority: 434
  Following yesterdays elections, I am hardly alone in having mixed feelings. I am unsettled with both disappointment, hope, gratitude and sadness. Heres why: Kalamazoo, Michigan, voted for equality rights by upholding the LGBT non-discrimination policy that was on the ballot -- by an impressive margin of 62%, even ...
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• Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 562
  Richard Boudreaux | The Los Angeles Times 4 November 2009 Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib’s forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners — and a fierce belief that peaceful protest can bring about a Palestinian state. A few hundred strong, they march to the ...
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• India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  UTTARAKHAND, India, November 3 (CDN) — Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal on Oct. 25 disrupted the Sunday worship of a Ministry of the Gospel service in Rudrapur and accused the pastor of forceful conversion. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that the extremists barged into the worship service led by ...
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• India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  UTTARAKHAND, India, November 3 (CDN) — Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal on Oct. 25 disrupted the Sunday worship of a Ministry of the Gospel service in Rudrapur and accused the pastor of forceful conversion. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that the extremists barged into the worship service led by ...
  6 days ago

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