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• Protecting civilians in South Sudan

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 130
  Presbyterians recently initiated, signed and sent an interfaith letter calling for the deployment of United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) peacekeeping forces to protect civilians in South Sudan. The letter went to Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping ...
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• Can radical book tours change the world?

  
  Young Anabaptist Radicals — Authority: 406
  Over at Jesus Manifesto, Mark Van Steenwyck offers a challenge to the social-change-through-book-tour model : It seems to be assumed that the way we can build a movement in our society is by wring books, building platforms, and then touring around using our amassed social capital to woo large numbers of people to ...
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• An Urban Laboratory of Interdependence

  
  FAITH HOUSE Manhattan — Authority: 114
  Dear Friends of Faith House, In timespast, strong cities were walled. Ourreligions developed in similar contexts of defensiveness, isolation andconflict. The times have changed.  Today, bridges,airports, roads, cell phones and the internet help cities survive andthrive on a connected planet. Religion, one of ...
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• Obama’s Bow and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 659
  The gospel according to Aretha Franklin says:  “R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to me.” Biblical wisdom teaches: “Give everyone what you owe him.  If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then…
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• Change me.

  
  Route 5:9 — Authority: 104
  I recently learned of a sin situation within my church that hurt my heart.  Sin is everywhere, but it hurts the most when it happens within our immediate family:  our home church.  Sometimes we do all we think we can and the only thing left is to pray, love, and wait.  The funny thing about God is when I get ...
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• Don’t get too stressed out if there are messes around your church. . .

  
  Route 5:9 — Authority: 104
  A great post today from Chris Brauns on the messes that we sometimes (usually?) find in our churches: Sometimes, we wrongly assume that if we move forward as local churches, then church life will be spic and span.  But, in a fallen world it is quite the opposite.  Proverbs 14:4 reminds us: Where there is ...
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• Blogging Presbyterian peacemakers

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 130
  Presbyterian peacemakers have several blogs going: Trinity Presbytery blogs at Trinity Peacemakers . A recent post invites prayers for RECONCILEs Peace Institute in South Sudan. The Presbytery of Genesee Valley blogs at Presbytery Peacemaking blog . Satyagraha and Humble Service is the theme of a recent post. ...
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• UNEP’s David Jensen on Linking Environment, Conflict, and Peace in the United Nations

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 465
  At the United Nations, “we see more and more interest in looking at natural resources: how do they contribute to a conflict, and how can they contribute to peacebuilding ,” says David Jensen of the UN Environment Programme’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch in a video interview with ECSP Director ...
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• The True Face of Presbyterian Peacemaking

  
  The Rev's Rumbles — Authority: 128
  Solomon writes: When last we visited The Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) they were promoting Temple Mount conspiracy theories and suggesting Hizballahs Al Manar as a legitimate news source: Presbyterian Church (USA) Peacemakers Promote Anti-Semitic Terrorist News and Conspiracy ...
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• Emrace diversity, End discrimination,

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 130
  December 10 is designated as Human Rights Day - a day to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The Presbyterian United Nations Office and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program offer a variety of materials to help plan worship services or other observances of Human Rights Day ...
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• Have you done your Thanksgiving shopping?

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 130
  Give your friends a copy of Proclaiming the Good News of Gods Peace , a daily devotional booklet for Advent 2009. It makes a lovely Thanksgiving present! Peacemakers across the country and around Gods world contributed to the booklet. Use Proclaiming the Good News of Gods Peace in your personal devotions. Share ...
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• Yoder on Just War 5

  
  Inhabitatio Dei — Authority: 559
  I’ve been reading The War of the Lamb, the most recent posthumous work of John Howard Yoder’s to be released. I’ll have more to say about some of the problems of the published form of the book later. (Short version: I deeply suspect that Stassen has taken too many editorial liberties in the interest of ...
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• Future of the army lies in counter-insurgency: General

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Counter-insurgency operations will eventually displace the armys traditional peacemaking capabilities as it prepares for life after the Afghan mission, says the general in charge of Canadas land forces
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• RCL Year C – Advent 3

  
  Sacredise - Seeking to be Fully Alive — Authority: 114
  The third week of Advent continues the journey with John the Baptist, focussing on his preaching and the call to justice that he proclaimed. In worship services where we seek to have a strong justice orientation, we couldn’t ask for a better platform to work from! One again, a reminder that these resources are ...
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• 15 New YA Books Featuring Forgiveness

  
  mitali's fire escape — Authority: 119
  I put out a call for books published in 2009 that underline the theme of forgiveness , and received several responses in the YA category, listed below in alphabetical order by authors last name. Thanks to everybody who contributed; if you dont see your suggestion, its probably because the book wasnt released in ...
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• LIVING ROOM Indigenous Peoples & Inclusive Politics with Tiokasin Ghosthorse

  
  FAITH HOUSE Manhattan — Authority: 114
  Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program Intersections, 274 5th Ave Btwn 29th and 30th Sts With Tiokasin Ghosthorse: TiokasinTasunke Wanagi "Ghosthorse Spirit Coming In" Oyate Tokaheya Wicakiye "He Places Nations First" On the Wednesday evening beforeThanksgiving Day, all are invited to a ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  AKPhilately — Authority: 100
  Adenauer, Konrad The question of the German Rhineland kept the peacemakers busy. Ideally, it was to be a buffer zone between France and Germany, and various ideas were floated. Demilitarize the area, or make it part of France even. The inhabitants had never got used to Prussian rule, but becoming French was ...
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• Some thoughts on peace on Veterans Day

  
  Your Charmed Life — Authority: 126
  As I ponder the complexities -- the bravery of fighting versus the bravery of pacifism, the necessity of fighting versus the necessity of, some day, turning swords into plowshares -- I feel moved to share this story from my past....
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• Leadership, and “mob mentality”

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 116
  We read the following passage in our House prayers this morning, and I was struck by something.“Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles.  And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.  None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem.  Yet more ...
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• November 11

  
  Open Hand/Open Eye — Authority: 110
  To begin at the beginning: Basil Launcelot Cumpston, my great uncle, fatally wounded near Bullecourt, 1917; John Cox, my cousin, died in when his Dakota went down in Myanmar, 1945. George Weber and Tom Fox, CPT colleagues, died in Iraq, 2003 and 2006. Andrew Olmsted, a US Army major and a web log author I admired, ...
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