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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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Categories: War & Peace

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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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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Categories: Activism, Ministry

In light of  headlines that dozens of kids and families were killed in US bombings of Afghanistan on Tuesday, this conversation seems as urgent as ever. God help us. It was a beautiful thing to join my friend and brotha Rob…

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Categories: War & Peace

090421-jesus-jet“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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Categories: Activism, Ministry

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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Categories: Ministry

As per usual, on Friday, we had all sorts of Buy Nothing Day festivities (check out the video here). But that’s not what I want to talk about. I read recent posts on consumerism and Buy Nothing Day by Eugene…

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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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Categories: General

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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Categories: Elections

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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Categories: Activism, Economics

[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

In addition to the steps mentioned in my previous post, I also wanted to share some things that go beyond our local community to the broader New Monastic movement and…

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Categories: Race

[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

Vonetta and Jason, first I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for the conversation you’ve invited and stirred with our private conversations and now

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Categories: Race

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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‘Twas truly a gift to be at the 25th anniversary of the Cornerstone Festival, hosted by our friends at Jesus People USA. It was a mighty fine line-up of presenters–folks like William Cavanough, Mimi Haddad, Jonathan Case, Miroslav Volf, Jim Fitz, and the Christian Peacemaker Teams (oh, and some fine bands too). We especially enjoyed the company of our new friends Karen [...]

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Categories: General

This past weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the historic action of the Catonsville 9. On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with [...]

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Categories: General

Here is a brilliant video from an action around the 5th anniversary of the war … Yes Lord, more holy mischief! Watch it:

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Categories: War & Peace

The Cost of War

In our little circles, we’ve been talking a lot about the need to create new holidays and rituals of remembrance as a Church–this peculiar, set-apart people of God. The early Christians talked a lot about how they no longer celebrated the “festivals of the Caesars” or the holidays of the [...]

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Categories: General, War & Peace

The Cost of War

Five years ago, I was in Iraq. It was as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, living in the middle of the “shock-and-awe” bombing of Baghdad — some of the scariest days of my life. As Easter approached, we walked through the Lenten season with brothers and sisters in Iraq. One night I had a [...]

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Categories: General

The Internet has made it possible for every person to have channels of significant influence at their fingertips, regardless of credibility or content. This can be used for good or for bad. And in the case of Cedarville University, we have the bad. I was supposed to speak at Cedarville University in Ohio. At the last minute they cancelled, the VP’s job was threatened, all kinds of ugliness. A small group of people have used an impersonal, indirect means of communication to try and tear down [...]

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