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Posts Tagged ‘Violence’
Tags: Afghanistan, allegiance, America, asymmetrical warfare, Christ, Christians, church, conscience, conscientious objection, cost of war, faith, God, History, illegality, Iraq, just war, justice, Military, morality, pacifism, peace, Politics, proportion, proportionality, Religious, Richard Land, sin, soldier, subordinate, Theology, truth commission, Violence, War
It’s one thing to go to the “Holy Land” and see where Jesus worked and walked in the past. It’s another thing to combine that with seeing where the Spirit of Jesus is working and walking in the present, teaching…
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 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…
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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
A number of commentators have questioned the accepted logic that disasters bring out the worst in people, directly challenging the pervasive “looters run amok” imagery often perpetuated by the media and held out by lawmakers as a rationale for military…
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Tags: activist, aid worker, Amy Goodman, compassion, complexities, conflict, crisis, culture, Democracy, Democracy Now, destruction, Disaster, earthquake, environmental destruction, epicenter, equality, grassroots movement, haiti, haitians, Hurricane, individualism, journalist, justice, Military, neighborhood, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Nonviolence, occupation, Poor, Poverty, relief efforts, resistance, security guards, solidarity, Video, Violence
 Tuesday morning — just two days ago — I wrote to half a dozen leaders of progressive thought and action in America, each separately, the letter that follows. One of the people I wrote was the historian/activist Howard Zinn, author…
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Tags: activist, Afghanistan, America, arrest, Campaign, candidate, Change, Congress, Disaster, Elections, employment, health care, History, Humor, Islam, justice, militarism, Military, mobilization, Organizers, organizing, police, progressive, Prophetic, Racism, structures, Terrorism, United States, Vietnam War, Violence, Washington
 It was 3 a.m. when they came barreling into town — Israeli jeeps and tanks preempting the dawn and hollering menacing messages over their loudspeakers. ‘Wake up you Arab dogs,’ they would exclaim as our team gathered to prepare our…
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Tags: activist, Arab, atheist, blood, body of christ, building bridges, conflict, curfew, destruction, dialogue, ethnic, Ethnicity, Gaza, hate, History, humanitarian, humility, identity, injustice, international solidarity movement, Israel, Israeli, israeli jew, Jesus, Jew, Jewish, Military, military occupation, Movement, newsweek, Nonviolence, occupation, Palestine, perception, protest, Religion, rocket, Violence, wall
Last week my wife and I had the grand opportunity to leave our two kids in the care of her parents and spend five days on vacation in California. Afterward we both agreed that it was probably the most enjoyable…
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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Amos, anger, Change, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, commitment, Community, development, Disaster, dream, earthquake, greed, inalienable rights, injustices, Jesus, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., militarism, Movement, natural disaster, pat robertson, Poor, Poverty, racial, racial injustice, Segregation, Slavery, speech, streets, teenager, Vacation, victim, Violence, vision
While the story of bible-verses-on-gun-scopes is getting more press, I am just (if not more) disturbed to read of a U.S. chaplain in Afghanistan encouraging soldiers to “hunt people for Jesus,” and encouraging the distribution of Bibles translated into Dari and…
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Tags: abuse, Afghanistan, America, American, anger, Asia, bagram afghanistan, Bible, bible distribution, bible verses, chaplains, conversion, development, documentary, documentary film, enemies, extremists, gift, God, government, gun scopes, Guns, hatred, image of god, Iraq, Jesus, killing, Messiah, Military, misuse of power, Muslim, muslims, oppression, pashto, power, proselytise, Religion, soldier, special forces, stereotype, stereotypes, Terrorism, Violence, weapons
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
On November 20, 2009, to considerable media fanfare, a group of 140 senior Christian leaders issued ‘The Manhattan Declaration.’ In brief, it calls for Christians to defend three “fundamental truths about justice and the common good”:
- the sanctity of human life,
- the dignity…
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Tags: Abortion, application, biblical, Christian, common good, Community, context, creation, Economic, enemy, Evangelical, Evangelicals, Evolution, Forgiveness, Gay Marriage, God, Good News, Gospel, gospel of luke, green revolution, healing, Immigrant, injustice, interpretation, Israel, Jesus, justice, manhattan, metaphor, Ministry, New Testament, old testament, oppressed, oppression, Parable, personal salvation, political crisis, Political Engagement, Poor, Prayer, Preaching, priorities, prophet, prophet isaiah, prosperity, Sabbath, sanctity of human life, Scripture, teaching, values, Violence, Workers, Worship
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
Does this sound familiar? A poor, minority community experiences high levels of violence and drug dealing. A predominantly white police force sweeps in and arrests many offenders. New drug dealers and gang members almost immediately fill the void, leaving the…
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Tags: City, Community, Council, crime, Criminal Justice, david kennedy, gang members, justice, Law Enforcement, law enforcement agencies, municipalities, murder, partnerships, pastors, perspective, police, police force, Poor, prejudice, prejudices, Race, reconciliation, relationship, Seattle, social service providers, Violence, White
I didn’t get a chance to watch Barack Obama’s Nobel speech live, but I’ve read the transcript and found very little in the speech that couldn’t have been given by any number of past presidents—including George W. Bush. Granted, absent…
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Tags: Bible, bomb, bombing, Change, Christ, Conservative, culture, dialogue, enemies, escalation, foreign policy, george w bush, God, Guns, History, invasion, John Howard Yoder, Just War Theory, Liberal, Military, nobel peace prize, nobel speech, occupation, pentagon, perspective, Poor, power, President Obama, protestant, Religion, romans, soldier, state, sword, technology, Terror, terrorist, tradition, unilateralism, Violence, Vote, weapons
The president’s campaign speech in Philadelphia on race and his speech earlier this year to the Muslim world from Egypt were, in my mind, two of the most important presidential speeches of my lifetime. I had tears streaming down my…
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Tags: candidate, community organizer, cynicism, engagement, head of state, History, hitler, humility, intelligence, jim wallis, Martin Luther King, moral force, muslim world, nobel peace prize, nobel speech, Nonviolence, oslo speech, President, presidential speech, realism, Reflection, Violence, Violence and Nonviolence, world war ii
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
President Obama laid out a moral defense of the use of force in his acceptance speech in Oslo after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. It was a more philosophical, and even theological, lecture than presidents normally give — and therefore worthy…
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Tags: acceptance speech, Afghanistan, America, bush administration, commitment, complexity, conflict, conflict resolution, Democracy, diplomacy, engagement, escalation, gandhi, head of state, Human Rights, inequality, leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., Military, military leaders, Muslim, muslim world, neighbor, nobel peace prize, peace, President Obama, realism, Reflection, Republicans, speech, Terrorism, UN, United States, use of force, Violence, War, war on terror
For many of us in the U.S., the sometimes vicious attack ads of last year’s presidential election are more than just a recent memory. The Philippines, a longtime ally of the U.S., is gearing up for its own round of elections…
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Tags: abduction, arrest, attack, ballot, counterinsurgency, crisis, Election, Elections, general jovito palparan, gloria macapagal arroyo, government, grassroots, Human Rights, human rights lawyer, human rights violations, impunity, journalist, justice, Military, Military aid, murder, Paramilitaries, Paramilitary, peace, perpetrators, Philippines, police, President, private army, rally, security, state department, tax dollars, Terror, Terrorism, Violence, warlord
There are times in the “culture wars” when a very diverse group of religious leaders can come together across the political spectrum in a common cause. Recent legislation pending in the Ugandan parliament is one of those occasions. If it becomes…
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Tags: Christ, christian leaders, churches, Conservative, culture, Culture War, death penalty, harassment, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Jesus, justice, legislation, morality, neighbor, Parliament, Persecution, political spectrum, prison, religious leaders, teaching, tradition, Uganda, Violence
Tags: biblical, Catholic, catholic priest, context, first casualty, ft benning, Georgia, greed, human dignity, injustice, jail, Jesuit, Jesus, justice, murder, murderer, oppressed, pollutant, priest, prison, prisons, protest, psalm 8, Repentance, School of the Americas, Scripture, SOA, U.S. Army, Violence, witness, wrath of god
 Although Hani Abu Haikal is a Muslim, he probably can identify with the sense of panic Joseph and Mary must have felt as they searched for a place to stay as the time of Jesus’ birth drew near.
Hani lives in…
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Tags: Advent, ambulance driver, bethlehem, bomb, checkpoints, Childbirth, Children, Christian, Christmas, christmas story, curfew, demolition, Guns, haikal, hani, harassment, Human Rights, human rights organizations, Israel, Israeli, israeli settlers, jail, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jew, Jewish, Joseph, joseph and mary, justice, Mary, Muslim, occupation, olive trees, Palestinians, prison, security, soldier, Stories, Supreme Court, Torture, Video, video camera, Violence, volunteers, War, West Bank, wife
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