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Sam Harris, Richard Dawkin, and Christopher Hitchens have nothing on the greatest evangelist of atheism today, Pat Robertson. The Red Cross has reported up to 3 million of God’s children have been killed, injured, or left homeless in Haiti after…

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South Park famously set up how the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is “branded” as a group of “hardcore-any-means-necessary-pirates.” In reality, however, they are just at the spiky-end of nonviolent direct action and have never harmed a single individual in their 33 year…

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Sad news from Sydney as a headline for the ABC read, “Abusive letter suspect ‘a peace activist’”. The article went on to say the man was in court to face charges of harassment after sending “letters to the families of…

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350 might be the most important number in the world at the moment. 350 parts per million is a safer amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (though those of us who have spent too long researching this stuff will know that…

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Categories: Activism, Environment

What if? What if Obama’s speech had not simply referenced Gandhi and King but followed them in following the way of Jesus? I have a number of friends, like Nobel Prize nominee John Dear and Ken Butigan, who have articulately raised concerns about…

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Many would have read reports of Rowan Williams wonderful sermon in Copenhagen. Below are some of my favorite quotes. What some may have missed is this fantastic talk he gave. …
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Categories: Environment
Categories: Activism, Environment

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This is analogous to the indulgences that the Catholic Church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what’s happening…

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Ok, so if Amos was to show up today and deliver his poetic-prophetix in the body of a skinny, pale spectacled, over educated English environmental analyst, he might look something like the amazing Danny Chivers. …

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This clip is one of my favorites. This is from an awesome mob called “smartMeme” a collective that share much in common with “The Change Agency” who I do some facilitating for in Australia. If I was living in the States this is definitely a group I would be working with and learning from. …
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Categories: Activism, Environment

This clip comes from a fantastic collective who are putting into practice Gandhi’s words “under certain circumstances, fasting is [a] weapon God has given us for use in times of utter helplessness.” …
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Categories: Activism, Environment

Unlike the other clips we’ve been showing in this “countdown to COP15” this one EPYC hasn’t shown in workshops but is often mentioned by students. It comes from a science teacher named Greg Craven …
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Categories: Environment, Theology

This video features three heroes of mine and courageous Christian leaders, Desmond Tutu, Wangari Maathai and Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, talking about the importance of climate justice for the poorest of the poor right across the continent of Africa.

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Categories: Environment

This clip gave an Aussie kid like me who grew up on Midnight Oil goose bumps (embarrassingly I cried despite the cringe factor) and was very popular with students in our workshops because of the big name stars. …

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Categories: Environment

[continued from part 1] Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas reminds us that “the other” is not an object for us to control but a subject of the Holy One for us to encounter that will inevitably leave us different. In welcoming the stranger…

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“F%*# OFF! WE’RE FULL!” read the bumper sticker I saw this morning, written within the outline of the Australian continent. The offense of the bumper stickers I felt twice as hard after hearing that another boat of people fleeing horrific…

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“You need to realize that war is money. And money makes the world go round. As soon as you realize that, the sooner you can fit in like the rest of us,” said the police officer who recently arrested me…

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“The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice,” said that great prophet of joyful restorative justice, Desmond Tutu, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

This past Tuesday, May 26,  marks “Sorry Day” in Australia where the Australians pause…

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090513-jesus-killed-muhammad-harpers“Jesus Killed Mohammed” was written in Arabic in large red letters on the side of a U.S. Army Special Forces vehicle, armed to kill and rolling through a town in Iraq. It sounds like a bad Mad-Maxesque Hollywood adaption of the…

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