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A Seed of Dissent
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank It's time for the troops to come home. When opposition to the war in Vietnam grew inside the ...

The Innocent Victims
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tom C. Davis How can we abide the deaths of so many children? In October, a study on deaths in Iraq was publis ...

Declaring Peace With Iraq
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Laurel Rae Mathewson More than 133 people, many of them prominent religious leaders, were arrested on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in S ...

118 Days
Originally Posted: 05/12/2011 - 11:04am | Type: Magazine Article

James Loney Christian Peacemakers on captivity in Iraq. On Nov. 26, 2005, four members of the Christian Peac ...

A Gateway to Humanity
Originally Posted: 05/12/2011 - 11:01am | Type: Magazine Article

Harmeet Singh Sooden I have always been uncomfortable with the designation “peacemaker.” “Makers” usually have an intimate relationship wi ...

'We are Still Here'
Originally Posted: 05/12/2011 - 11:03am | Type: Magazine Article

Peggy Gish The faces of our Iraqi partners showed pain and worry in April 2006 when we asked them whether Christian Peacemaker Teams shoul ...

A Light Shines in the Darkness
Originally Posted: 05/12/2011 - 11:03am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Tom Fox was profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Tom Fox was prof ...

Refuse to Go
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

F. William Hodge I read with great interest Stacia Brown’s article on conscientious objectors in the military (“Valor, Honor, Conscience,” ...

First Day on the Job
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. Welcoming al Qaeda's dynamic new leader in Iraq. Congratulations to Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, t ...

Valor, Honor, Conscience
Originally Posted: 05/12/2011 - 10:37am | Type: Magazine Article

Stacia Brown A growing number of U.S. soldiers are saying no to the Iraq war. When Jason Webb joined the Army ...

Iraq Vets Take on Washington
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Erik K. Gustafson Soldier-candidates offer a firsthand perspective on the Iraq war. During the Vietnam War, it ...

9/11, Five Years On
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Joan Chittister Has the world changed? Or have we? We are five years away now from the incineration of the Twi ...

Paradise: Under the shade of swords.
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Christi Kramer At the feet of the mothers. The safest place in the world for you is curled up on the com ...

The Ways of Shalom
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Robert Roth These five weeks of passages extol the depth, breadth, and living power of shalom—the biblical peace for humanity and all that ...

The Blood Of The Martyrs
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ched Myers Tom Fox's nonviolent witness. We have assumed the name of peacemakers, but we have been, by an ...

Who is the Enemy?
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

John Malkin Everyone wants to be happy and to fulfill their dreams. For many who live in war zones, prisons, and places of poverty, those ...

New And Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh A New Season A New Season Hitting midlife can bring angst, lots of it. Dale Hanson Bourke’ ...

The Baghdad Four
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger More than 100 Palestinians from the village of At-Tuwani, including these children, attended a vigil in December for fo ...

Falsehoods and the Iraq War
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The warring factions in Iraq are engaged in a civil war that the U.S. occupation is only making worse. ...

Women's Work
Originally Posted: 03/20/2013 - 2:09pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Members of Women’s Will, an Iraqi human rights organization, demonstrate outside the Ministry of Human Rights in Baghda ...

Troops Come Home Now
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Troops Come Home Now Troops Come Home Now Religious leaders—inclu ...

Counting the Cost
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

George A. Lopez Telling the truth about civilians killed. John Howard Yoder often asserted tha ...

Under IMF's Thumb
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Elizabeth Palmberg Rich countries have decided to control Iraq the old-fashioned way. A recent ...

News Bites
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mark Betz Grand Gestures. Grand ...

Winning The Peace
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 11:09am | Type: Magazine Article

Glen Stassen For peacemaking to be effective, we must not only say no to war, but provide viable alternatives. ...

Getting in the Way
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 11:09am | Type: Magazine Article

Rich Preheim Christian Peacemaker teams puts into practice the idea that peace work should be a regular job, not just a noble hobby. ...

Rebuilding Iraq?
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mark Betz The U.S. Congress appropriated $18.4 billion dollars in 200 ...

Nonviolence in Najaf?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Will we recognize an Islamic peace movement when we see it? The BBC headline ...

New and Noteworthy
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

The Editors A Peace Diary A Peace Diary Longtime peace advocate Peggy Gish traveled to Iraq, along with others in the Christian Peacema ...

News Bites
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mark Betz Altar Call. Altar Call. Thousands celebrated the reopening ...

Michael Moore Brings the War Home
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum It's the stuff the mainstream mass media won't tell you. In the ...

In Iraq, the Truth is Out There
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Throughout the first year of the Iraq war, Throughout the first year of the Iraq war, the Bush administration managed to keep a pret ...

End the Occupation
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Events in Iraq dramatically reveal that the U. Events in Iraq dramatically reveal that the U.S. occupation is out of control. In April, U.S. ...

The Language of Truth
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bruce Cockburn Musician Bruce Cockburn describes the real and the surreal in Baghdad. With more than two dozen ...

Weapons of Mass Deception
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

David Cortright The failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has exposed the lie at the heart of the Bush administration� ...

The Lessons of War
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The American-led war against Iraq has begun. The American-led war against Iraq has begun. Over th ...

One Citizen's Shining Light
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger On Feb. 9, 2003, Orion magazine took out a full-page advertisement on page five of The New York Times. ...

A Common Family
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Glenn K. Smith IN THE March-April 2003 issue, there were many compelling arguments against the war in Iraq. ...

Seeing Beyond War
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Theresa Miller I THOROUGHLY enjoyed the article by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall ("With Weapons of the Will," September-October ...

The War at Home
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank The cost? We're already paying it. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson discovered that he could no ...

A Simple Message
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Philip Curcio The passion and attitude of my heart was expressed in two recent articles: "Prophetic Leadership" (by Jim Wallis) ...

Allies, Not Adversaries
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Richard Deats Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall ("With Weapons of the Will," September-October 2002) have done an excellent job in ...

First Martyr Mourned
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman George Weber, 73, of Chesley, Ontario, was killed in a mo ...

Seeing the Faith of the Enemy
Originally Posted: 03/16/2011 - 11:56am | Type: Magazine Article

The Editors Basrah, Iraq Basrah, Iraq Sister Yvette leads her first Communion class at St. Teresa Cha ...

Not a Just or Moral War
Originally Posted: 05/19/2011 - 3:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

David Earle Anderson The churches' pre-emptive response to Bush's Iraq plans. On Oct. 7, just hours ...

What Now?
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

John Foreman JIM WALLIS, in arguing for disarming Iraq without war ("Disarm Iraq... JIM WALLIS, in argu ...

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

Thomas Lawrence WHILE I AGREE with Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall ("With Weapons of the Will," September-October 2002) that nonv ...

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

Celia Davis IT IS ASSUMED that a magazine like yours aims to develop the spiritual gift of discernment. IT I ...

Disarm Iraq…Without War
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Saddam Hussein is an evil ruler, no doubt about it. Saddam Hussein is an evil ruler, no doubt abou ...

The Missing Link
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

John Reuwar Thank you for the unmuddled thinking in Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall's article on how to defeat Saddam Hussein without ...