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 Something sort of mystical and magical happened after a 19-year-old kid named Papito was killed on our block a few weeks ago. As our neighborhood ached and grieved and cried with his family, we began to create a memorial for…
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Tags: America, blizzard, blood, bullets, Christian, church, Community, courage, faith, faith community, Guns, gunshops, hate, hatred, heaven, Immigrant, inner city, insult, Jesus, kensington, Martin Luther King, neighbor, neighborhood, pastor, pastors, peace, philadelphia, power, Prayer, prayer vigil, principalities and powers, protest, Race, racial, Scripture, scriptures, Shane Claiborne, shooter, shooting, singing, spectacle, storm, streets, sword, teenager, teenagers, The Simple Way, Violence
 At about midnight we heard the shots ring out. My friend ran to the door and I heard him yell, “Shane, a kid has been shot, come down.” As we looked down the street we could see a young man staggering as…
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Tags: arrest, blood, bullets, Christian, clergy, colosimo, Community, Congress, conscience, crime, death, enemies, faith community, good samaritan, Gun Violence, Guns, gunshops, gunshot wounds, homicide, jericho, Jericho Road, Jesus, kensington, legislation, Lockheed Martin, members of congress, neighbor, neighborhood, philadelphia, Prayer, protest, Samaritan, shooter, shooting, shot, statistic, streets, Violence, violent crime
Almost exactly 4 years ago, more than 100 faith leaders from around the country went to jail together as we prayed for a moral budget and lamented the current one. I think it may be time to do it again.
On Oct.…
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Tags: bailout, bailout package, bomb, budget, casualties, death, health care, hiroshima bomb, jail, Military, military budget, Military spending, money, national defense authorization, nuclear arsenal, spiritual death, Suicide
As we remember the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we join our voices with the psalmist in a cry of lament: “How long, O Lord, until Abel’s blood stops crying, until justice rolls down like waters, until the…
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Tags: 9/11, anniversary, bomb, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Iraq, Jesus, killing, march, money, nonviolent movements, peacemakers, Peacemaking, Prayer, rally, Ron Sider, September 11, solidarity, state, sword, taxpayers, Terror, victim, Violence, War, witness
It’s wild how easily we get sidetracked from Holy days by holidays, and how quickly we can smother our central identity in Christ with other identities such as our national identity. The Fourth of July is one of those holidays…
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Tags: 4th of July, America, American, Bible, celebration, Christ, Christian, church, Community, Cross, dream, faith community, Family, Fourth of July, garden, God, government, History, Holiday, Holidays, Jesus, Kids, kingdom, neighbor, neighborhood, neighbors, party, pentecost, potluck, United States, world
Tags: America, atomic bomb, Bible, bomb, Christ, Christian, church, death, Evangelical, george schultz, God, harry truman, hiroshima nagasaki, Jesus, jonathan merritt, justice, lynne hybels, Military, military budget, Movement, Nuclear Weapons, peace, Poverty, prophet, rob bell, social justice, southern baptist, state, sword, War, weapons
 “Good” Friday was real good this year. We remembered Jesus, and we remembered Jesus disguised in the “least of these” — those who continue to be tortured, spit on, slapped, insulted, misunderstood … those who ache, bleed, cry, love, forgive, and…
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With the National Day of Prayer coming up (May 7), a lot of folks around the country are organizing prayer services in church sanctuaries and town halls. We’re all for getting together to say prayers … but we’re also challenged…
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Tags: Community, crisis pregnancy center, faith community, Homeless, Jesus, kingdom, local, Movement, national day of prayer, neighbor, neighborhood, organizing, pray, Prayer, service, The Simple Way
 It seems that much of our conversation as a Church is in a perpetual cycle of reaction. We are tempted to exaggerate the neglected truth, and end up making incomplete disciples, either social justice disciples without Jesus or Jesus disciples…
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Tags: Australia, church, communion, Evangelism, Good News, Gospel, Homeless, Indigenous, Jesus, justice, neighbor, revival, social justice
Tags: addiction, Advent, Buy Nothing Day, Christmas, consumerism, consumption, Corporations, Economics, Empire, greed, Holiday, inequality, Jesus, Mammon, money, possessions, Poverty, Rev. Billy, Thanksgiving, The Simple Way, Violence, Violence and Nonviolence, Wal-mart, Walmart, Workers, Worship
God of Abraham, Miriam, Hannah, Rizpah, and David…
God of Elijah, Amos, Ruth, Isaiah, Deborah…
God of Mary, John the Baptizer, Peter, Paul, Philemon and Onesimus…
God of Anthony, Ambrose, Dirk Willems, Teresa of Avila, and Francis of
Assisi,
God of Dorothy Day, Martin Luther…
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Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Bible, Empire, Memo to the President, Peacemaking, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Violence, Violence and Nonviolence
Every day I am asked how I will be voting.
Principled Christian non-voters and secular anarchists have written to urge a public statement on voting abstinence. Good folks in both parties and plenty of journalists are frustrated that we won’t answer…
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Tags: 2008 Election, candidate, consistent ethic of life, Election, Elections, Jesus, People of Color, Politics, Poverty, President, Privilege, Race, Religious Right, Voting, White
All the ruckus on Wall Street has created an incredible moment for the kingdom of God. Across the planet folks are asking questions like: “Can the world afford the American dream?” “Does God’s vision for the world look like Wall…
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Tags: Activism, business, Community, Debt, Economics, economy special focus, greed, Homeless, Jesus, Jesus for President, Kingdom of God, police, Poor, Poverty, stock market, The Simple Way, Wall Street
Tags: Affirmative Action, Community, Diversity, Intentional Communities, New Monasticism, New Monastics, New Monastics and Race, Race, Racial Reconciliation, Vote, Voting
As we pass the half-way point of our Jesus for President tour, we remember Jesus’ admonition that we be “as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.” There is a lot of momentum around our little campaign of political misfits – from some of the mainstream media and from the dozen cities where we’ve had thousands of folks come together to plot goodness. And with the [...]
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