Peace

Fight or Die: How to Lose Friends and Irritate People

Jarrod McKenna 4-21-2010

This video clip by The Work of The People is going to upset a lot of people.

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In Honor of Civil Rights Leaders Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-21-2010

The world is stubborn. It changes its thinking at a glacial pace. People fear change, and they come to hate what they fear. Powerful interests do not want to lose or to share power. The work of social justice, of affecting positive change requires persistent commitment and radical love that gives one the energy to continue the work across decades.

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Putting 'Collateral Murder' in Full Context: Rotten Fruit and the Tree From Which It Fell

Josh Stieber 4-19-2010

Recently, Wikileaks, an online whistleblower site, released a video which was dubbed "Collateral Murder." I write as a former member of the Infantry c

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Beyond Anti-War: Nonviolence in Our Neighborhoods

Andrew Wilkes 4-16-2010
This semester at Princeton Seminary, I am taking a course on War and Christian Conscience.
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Who Speaks for American Jews?

Isaac Luria 4-16-2010
It's the age-old question. Who can claim to speak for American Jews on Israel?

World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder seems to think he's found the answer. It's him.

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Why the Tea Party Movement Should be Anti-War

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-16-2010
What is the Tea Party position on war?

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Obama's 'Nuclear Spring'

Jim Wallis 4-15-2010
Monday and Tuesday, President Obama hosted leaders from 46 other countries at a summit on nuclear weapons, focused on the threat of terrorists getting nuclear material.
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Sudanese Churches' Four Key Concerns on Troubled Elections--and Four Ways We Can Help

Celestin Musekura 4-15-2010
Sudan's impending presidential and parliamentary elections have degenerated into a chaotic mixture of fraud accusations, boycotts, political assassinations, intimidation, abuses of power by the rul
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Tribal Tensions in Southern Sudan and Election Approaches

Allison Moody 4-14-2010
Editor's Note: As Sudan prepares for this April's election, the Khartoum regime's leader, President al-Bashir, has threatened to cut off the fingers of foreign election observers who "interfere
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This Palestinian Life: Stories of Nonviolent Resistance

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 4-14-2010

Last weekend I was at a family reunion where I had been invited to show pictures from my sabbatical in the Middle East last spring.

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Africa's 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'

Nontando Hadebe 4-14-2010
I was watching the news coverage on the meeting of world leaders in Washington hosted by President Obama on reducing nuclear weapons and ensuring that these do not get into the hands of terrorists
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Can Petraeus Push the U.S. Toward Peace in the Middle East?

4-13-2010
The taboo was finally broken and the genie is out of the bottle, despite some attempts to force it back.
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A Darfuri Perspective on Sudan's Dubious Elections

Niemat Ahmadi 4-13-2010
As a Darfuri, I recognize the fact that this presidential and parliamentary election in Sudan is an important milestone for the implementation of the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)
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This Is What the Emerging Church Looks Like?

Jarrod McKenna 4-12-2010
[Read more of this blog conversation in response to the Sojourners magazine article "http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.articl
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Enough Jawboning: A Bold but Hopeful Proposal for Middle East Peace

Arthur Waskow 4-12-2010

There is a biblical story in which Samson used the jawbone of an ass to defeat his enemies. Today some politicians seem to think "jawboning" -- talk and more talk, whether sweet or angry -- can actually win peace in the Middle East. But it will take much stronger action.

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Nonviolence: What About Hitler?

Rose Marie Berger 4-12-2010
In any in-depth conversation about the effectiveness of nonviolence as a strategy, this question always comes up: Would these nonviolent strategies have worked against the Nazis?
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A Good START: Reducing the Idolatry of Nuclear Weapons

Jim Wallis 4-09-2010
The decades-long struggle to first reduce and then abolish nuclear weapons achieved two major goals this week that we can celebrate.

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Presidents' Plans and Precedents for Peace in the Middle East

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 4-09-2010

Several sources have recommended this commentary by M.J. Rosenberg at Media Matters as a helpful analysis of the new "Obama Peace Plan" for the Middle East.

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The Inevitable Results of War: Sins as Well as Crimes

Arthur Waskow 4-08-2010
The end of Passover is said to mark the anniversary of the moment when Pharaoh's imperial horse-chariot army met disaster in the Red Sea.
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Glenn Beck's Faulty Logic

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-07-2010
I do not usually watch Glenn Beck's program. So many books, so little time. However, on April 6, while working on another project, my intuitive mind told me to watch Glenn Beck. So, I did.
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