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• Some thoughts on peace on Veterans Day

  
  Your Charmed Life — Authority: 127
  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....
  3 hours ago

• Leadership, and “mob mentality”

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  6 hours ago

• November 11

  
  Open Hand/Open Eye — Authority: 103
  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, ...
  9 hours ago

• What Should We Be Doing Today?

  
  RedBlueChristian — Authority: 119
  I begin this piece by asking what you plan to do at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Will you stop to pause and remember the significance of that time some ninety years ago? Will you stop to pause and perhaps hear the bells of the church tolling in remembrance of those who have fallen in ...
  14 hours ago

• Kid/YA Books About Forgiveness

  
  mitali's fire escape — Authority: 120
  My grandfather died a bitter man. He never recovered from the commandeering of our family jute farm in Bangladesh, hating that hed had to resettle in Kolkata as a dependent, almost penniless old man. Two generations removed from that loss, I have the freedom and distance to reflect on the shadow of unforgiveness ...
  1 day ago

• A Brief History of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  Like the International Fellowship of Reconciliation ( IFOR ), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) began out of the horrors of the First World War.  It also grew from the first wave of international feminism.  As women in Europe and North America were struggling for the vote (suffrage) ...
  1 day ago

• LIVING ROOM Speaking the Unspoken, Naming the Unnamed: Israel & Palestine Dialogue

  
  FAITH HOUSE Manhattan — Authority: 113
  Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program Intersections, 274 5th Ave Btwn 29th and 30th Sts With Marcia Kannry, The Dialogue Project & other guests Come explore how we can create an opportunity, a space where wecan risk to speak the unspoken about our connections, histories, andthe wounds of ...
  1 day ago

• “We” Do Not Have Troops: An Open Letter to the Church in the U.S.

  
  Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia — Authority: 480
  Dear Pastors, Other Church Leaders, and All Fellow Christians in the U.S., It has been commonplace recently to hear requests for prayer and other forms of support for “our” troops. The problem is that “we” do not have any troops. By “we” I mean the Christian church. It is not my intent in this letter to ...
  2 days ago

• A Brief History of the Fellowship of Reconciliation

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  In between my posts on a biblical case for Christian pacifism, I am going to write some brief historical sketches of the major grassroots, contemporary peace organizations–with special concentration on religious, especially Christian, organizations and especially those in North America (because I know them best).  ...
  3 days ago

• Today: International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 121
  “There can be no durable peace if the natural resources that sustain livelihoods are damaged or destroyed,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his message today, the 9 th annual International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict . He called for “Member States ...
  5 days ago

• A Biblical Case for Christian Pacifism: The Sermon on the Mount II

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• VIDEO: David Jensen on UNEP and Natural Resource Management After Conflict

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 121
  "We don’t do the gloom-and-doom scenarios anymore,” says David Jensen of the UN Environment Programme’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch , in a video interview with ECSP Director Geoff Dabelko. “We focus on the opportunities provided by resource management. We focus much more on how they can ...
  6 days ago

• New study resource on Sudan for children

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 128
  Order Piece Work/Peace Work: Working Together for Peace and Sudan at the Presbyterian Marketplace . Use item number 24-358-09-008. The cost is $8.00 plus shipping and handling. Piece Work/Peace Work: Working Together for Peace and Sudan is a curriculum designed for elementary children from Grades 1-6. The study is ...
  1 week ago

• Reimagining Remembrance

  
  Research Papers - All Categories — Authority: 474
  Remembrance Day needs to be re-imagined to make it more inclusive, more truthful and more meaningful for future generations, says this report. This would include an honest acknowledgement that some did “die in vain”, an end to “selective remembrance”, a positive stress on peacemaking, and making Armistice Day ...
  1 week ago

• Reimagining Remembrance

  
  Research Papers - All Categories — Authority: 474
  Remembrance Day needs to be re-imagined to make it more inclusive, more truthful and more meaningful for future generations, says this report. This would include an honest acknowledgement that some did “die in vain”, an end to “selective remembrance”, a positive stress on peacemaking, and making Armistice Day ...
  1 week ago

• Community of Living Traditions

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 128
  Something new is happening at Stony Point Center . An interfaith intentional community dedicated to nonviolence and peacemaking is in the making. For at least five years, Christians, Muslims and Jews will live together at Stony Point where they will work, worship and learn together. Residents will move into the ...
  1 week ago

• An Interview with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove about his new book “God’s Economy” Part IV

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  Jonathan thoughtfully answers some difficult questions that I pose to him in this fourth and final part of my interview with him on God’s Economy . If you haven’t had the chance to read this whole series, part one , part two and part three are available. JR: I loved your thoughts in the chapter ...
  1 week ago

• MISSILE LAUNCH

  
  Vandenberg Witness — Authority: 103
  Please join a protest against another ICBM Minuteman III launch from VAFB set for November 17 at 11:55 pm.  Launch will occur sometime during the night, however, the protest will be at midnight. Check the Vandenberg website for cancellation. The missile will have one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic ...
  1 week ago

• Learning about Sudan in Maryville

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 128
  In the Presbytery of East Tennessee , International Peacemaker the Rev. Orozu Lokine Daky, from Sudan, and Dr. Ingrid Reneau, a PC(USA) Mission Co-worker in South Sudan , offered workshops at the Global Voices Summit. This event was sponsored by the group, Global Women , a nonprofit organization connecting and ...
  1 week ago

• Take the Countdown to Copenhagen Pledge

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 128
  Take the Countdown to Copenhagen Pledge - today! International leaders will be meeting in Copenhagen in December to create a new international agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. These are crucial talks, and it is important for the United ...
  2 weeks ago

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