“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…
“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…
“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…
I rarely agree with Mark Driscoll. Yet he points to something when he said:
This generation can be a whiny bunch of idealists getting together in small groups to complain about megachurches and the religious right rather than doing something.
If you thought socially conscious music in the mainstream was a thing of the past, turn your ears to what Australia is listening to. A song about justice and reconciliation in Australia was the highest new entry in the charts two weeks ago – starting out at #2 on the Australian charts and #2 after Madonna on the digital track charts – and remains in the top 50. As The New York Times reported:
Black and white, we waited like I had waited in the mosh pit for Rage Against the Machine two weeks earlier. Yet the main feature on this day, a day that so many had been waiting for, working for, praying for, was just one word: “Sorry.”
Matty is one of the many awesome kids in our neighbourhood who don’t mind that we are white and often hang out at our houses. As one kid put it, “it’s not [...]
“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…
It was only last month that Sydney newspaper The Herald Sun’s 
“God Is Love,” inscribed on the tracksuit of the athlete who [...]
Black and white, we waited like I had waited in the mosh pit for Rage Against the Machine two weeks earlier. Yet the main feature on this day, a day that so many had been waiting for, working for, praying for, was just one word: “Sorry.”
