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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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Tags: anger, atheism, Brian McLaren, Christianity, christopher hitchens, critique, Dawkins, earthquake, Evangelism, evangelists, falwell, feminist, Good News, Gospel, haitians, Harris, harris richard, Hitchens, Homeless, Hugo Chavez, jerry falwell, jesus of nazareth, lament, liberation theology, Media, natural disaster, pact with the devil, pat robertson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Theology
Tags: activist, Australia, Christians, driscoll, Gospel, injustice, japanese whaling ship, Jesus, mark driscoll, New Testament, Nonviolence, pacifist, peace, peacemakers, research vessel, sea shepherd conservation society, shepherd, steve erwin, sword, Video, Violence, way of the cross, witness
Tags: Activism, Afghanistan, agendas, Australia, children of god, Christ, enemies, evangelists, Faith-based, God, harassment, husband, integrity, interview, Jesus, justice, Martin Luther King, Military, Movement, murder, Nonviolence, peace activists, peacemaker, peacemakers, prophets, relationship, rhetoric, service, soldier, Theology, Violence, worldview
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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Tags: climate change, climate justice, COP15, copenhagen, Democracy, destruction, ecological crisis, engagement, Global South, Indigenous, International, Poor, prophets, riot cops, solidarity, tear gas, World Vision
Tags: accountability, activist, Afghanistan, application, balkans, Black Church, Black Churches, church, Community, cornel west, Cross, Desmond Tutu, development, Dorothy Day, Empire, enemies, evangelist, evangelists, gandhi, george w bush, head of state, hitler, Iraq, Jesus, john yoder, ken butigan, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., nobel laureate, nobel peace prize, nobel prize nominee, nobel speech, Nonviolence, Pakistan, peace, peacemaker, peacemakers, philosopher, President, President Obama, prophet, Prophetic, prophets, Race, reinhold niebuhr, resurrection, speech, teaching, Terrorism, Theology, Violence, War
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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Tags: climate change, COP15, copenhagen, creation, Democracy, Desmond Tutu, ecological crisis, engagement, God, Jesus, Poverty, Prayer, prophet, Spirituality, UN, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video
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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Tags: activist, Australia, Brian McLaren, business, Catholic, climate change, common good, Community, complacency, compromise, COP15, copenhagen, developed countries, Environment, History, indulgences, james hansen, justice, market, Military, money, Poor, Poverty, Prayer, science, slave trade, Slavery, Trade, trade solutions, youtube
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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Tags: Change, climate change, climate justice, COP15, creation, ecological crisis, engagement, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video, warming
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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Tags: Change, climate change, climate justice, COP15, creation, ecological crisis, engagement, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video, warming
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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Tags: Change, climate change, climate justice, COP15, creation, ecological crisis, engagement, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video, warming
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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Tags: activist, Change, climate change, climate change conference, climate justice, COP15, copenhagen, creation, crisis, destruction, ecological crisis, engagement, greg craven, school science teacher, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video, warming, Western
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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Tags: activist, Africa, bible studies, Brian McLaren, climate change, climate change conference, climate justice, COP15, copenhagen, Desmond Tutu, ecological crisis, justice work, peacemakers, tim costello, united nations climate change conference, Video, wangari maathai, youtube
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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Tags: Activism, activist, Australia, bible studies, Brian McLaren, climate change, climate justice, compassion, COP15, copenhagen, destruction, ecological crisis, engagement, facebook, Good News, Gospel, justice, Midnight Oil, Music, prophets, tim costello, United Nations, united nations climate change conference, Video, warming, youtube
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[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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Tags: 9/11, activist, Australia, baxter detention centre, Christ, Community, compassion, detention, Emmanuel, emmanuel levinas, Forgiveness, Jesus, liberation, peace, peacemakers, prison, Prophetic, quakers, Racism, refugee, riot cops, sacrament, Scripture, stranger in the land, Torture, tradition, Video, War, xenophobia
“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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Tags: aboriginal, activist, asylum, asylum seekers, Australia, Black, boatpeople, bumper sticker, cornell west, identity, Indigenous, indigenous people, peacemakers, philip berrigan, Poor, Racism, racist, scapegoating, South Africa, White, xenophobia
“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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Tags: activist, anti war protestors, arrest, bomb, bombing, bonhoeffer, christian extremism, civil disobedience, confinement, courage, crime, destruction, erik prince, extremism, extremists, grace, hate, holy spirit, injustice, Iraq, Islamic, jail, Jesus, letter from a birmingham jail, love, Martin Luther King Jr., martin luther kings jr, Military, paddy wagon, peace, peacemaker, peacemakers, police, police officer, power, Prayer, protest, soldier, solitary confinement, weapons
“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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Tags: aboriginal, aboriginal culture, aboriginal peoples, ancestor, aotearoa new zealand, application, art, Australia, biblical, Change, Christian, church, churches, class, common good, Community, culture, Desmond Tutu, Empire, evangelist, evangelists, faith, Genocide, hip-hop, human, Indigenous, indigenous people, Jesus, jesus christ, justice, kingdom, kinship, marginalized, Mark, missiology, missionaries, Music, nobel peace prize, nobel peace prize in 1984, peacemaker, peacemakers, Poor, pray, Prayer, Prophetic, prophets, rainbow spirit theology, real justice, reconciliation, red, Reflection, Repentance, restorative justice, Revelation, sacrifice, serving, sin, Sojourners, sorry day, spiritual life, teaching, Theology, trust, White, youtube
 “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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Tags: America, Arab, Arabic, biblical, Christ, Christianity, church, Cross, crusades, Democracy, Empire, enemy, Evangelism, God, Gospel, Guns, injustice, Iraq, Jesus, justice, killing, kingdom, Military, Ministry, Nonviolence, peace, power, proselytizing, Religion, Scripture, soldier, U.S. Army, Violence
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