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A 'Just Peace' President?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

If this Gaza War teaches us anything, if the tragic history of wars in the Middle East teaches us anything, it is that when people are determined to obtain weapons and fight, war goes on and solves ...

Your Ballots at Work: 'Waterboarding is Torture'
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

This kind of feels close to an exercise in I-told-you-so, but for all the folks who assert that voting is a hopelessly corrupted exercise in irredeemable empire, consider as an indicator the testim ...

Oppression of Women: The Oldest Injustice in Human History
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:52am | Type: Blog

In every culture and in every part of the world, this injustice is present. What is the oldest injustice in the world?</p> <p>It is the way that "we" view, treat, and oppress women.</ ...

Just Peacemaking and Counterinsurgency
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog

Biblical wisdom teaches: "Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21).</p> Biblical wisdom teaches: "Do not be overcome by evil but ...

A Pro-Lifer Who Welcomes the Obama Presidency
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog

In many situations I'm hesitant to use the term "pro-life," as for a lot of people it really means nothing more than "anti-abortion." To be pro-life should mean doing all that one can ...

A Tribute to Gayle Williams, Christian Martyr
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog

Life is a gift.</p> Life is a gift. It is a gift from God, creation, nature, father, and especially mother. It is a gift in the sense of the pure gift, the gift that as ...

Charlie Wilson's Warning
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog

<p>Coinciding with the visit of a dear friend who's spent the past few years working in Afghanistan for both development NGOs and (non-U.S.) government agencies, the DVD of Charlie Wilson's War ...

Will The Desert Bloom
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger In an arid valley of northwestern Afghanistan, diets used to consist of little more than tea and bread, and women remain ...

Bread Not Bombs
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler International relief organizations in Kabul are empl ...

9-11 Relatives Visit Afghanistan
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:50pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Family members of Sept. 11 victims traveled to Afgha ...

Just Do It.
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:50pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Friedensdorf, the international peace village in Ger ...

Beep Beep
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. Since Sojourners is a bimonthly magazine, you depend on us to cover the breaking news, with up-to-the-minute commentary on h ...

A Candle on a Hill
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Doug Hostetter Getting supplies there was the easy part. Getting supplies there was the easy part. The ...

A Light in the Darkness
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue ...