Peace

Climate Justice Clips: Countdown to Copenhagen, Day 7

Jarrod McKenna 12-01-2009

Beyond 'Diversity': New Creation and a Mestizo Vision

Chris Rice 12-01-2009

"Integration" and "diversity" do not express God's purpose for reconciliation deeply enough. What we need is a fresh paradigm that declares our new culture in Christ.

An Afghan Leader We Can Admire

Margaret Benefiel 11-30-2009

Affirming the Footnotes: What the Manhattan Declaration Gets Right

Brian McLaren 11-24-2009

Although there are several points I find troubling, inaccurate, or misleading in the recent Manhattan Declaration, and although I noticed the relative

Reduce the Danger of Nuclear War and Help Feed Hungry Kids

Multiple Authors 11-24-2009

Nowadays everyone's talking about nuclear disarmament.

Can You Hear Them Now?

Elizabeth Palmberg 11-23-2009

When I went to hear a staged reading of Lynn Nottage's play "Ruined," about the price of the ongoing war in Congo, last week, I had a stronger than usual motive to be sure to turn off my cell phone

Dinesh D'Souza, the New Atheism, and Constantinian Christianity

Aaron Taylor 11-20-2009

Last week at the Innovative Evangelism Conference, I got a chance to hear Dinesh D'Souza speak to a standing room only crowd.

Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis 11-19-2009

Your voice is being heard. Already, thousands of you have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan.

Obama's Bow and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Valerie Elverton Dixon 11-18-2009

The gospel according to Aretha Franklin says: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to me."

Biblical wisdom teaches: "Give everyone what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor." (Romans 13:7 NIV)

Pentagon Blocks Release of Detainee Abuse Photos -- Obama Agrees

Jimmy McCarty 11-17-2009

The release of photos of Americans supposedly treating imprisoned suspected terrorists badly has been blocked by the Pen

The Charter for Compassion

Cathleen Falsani 11-16-2009

Compassion is, by one definition, "a deep awareness and sympathy for another's suffering."

Uwem Akpan's Double Calling as Priest and Writer

Molly Marsh 11-13-2009

While we'd love to think we inspired Oprah to choose Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them as her current book club pick, we are glad his collection of stories is getting lots of new readers. Last year we asked Sojourners contributing writer Kimberly Burge to profile this important writer -- probably the first Nigerian Jesuit priest ever to have two stories published in The New Yorker. Burge writes about Akpan's double calling as a priest and writer, his early training in religious formation as well as the craft of writing. "More and more," Akpan says, "I'm beginning to believe that Christ was both a priest and a poet."

New Tools for Peace in Afghanistan

Jim Wallis 11-12-2009

When all you have is a hammer everything seems like a nail. No famous line more aptly applies to the president's current dilemma of seeking the best solution for Afghanistan.

An Evangelical Trojan Horse in the Democratic Party?

Brian McLaren 11-12-2009

A recent Daily Kos post asks this question: Does the Evangelical movem

More Walls Need to Fall

Becky Garrison 11-11-2009

As we celebrate the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, let us reflect on walls that are currently being built across the U.S.-Mexico border as well as in Bethlehem and the West Bank.

Beat the Defense Budget into a Plowshare

Shane Claiborne 11-11-2009

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.

Thanking the Refugee (The Plank in Australia's Eye, Part 2)

Jarrod McKenna 11-10-2009

[continued from part 1] Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas reminds us that "the other" is not an object for us to control but a

Afghanistan: Women and Children First

Laurel Frodge 11-06-2009

It may be too idealistic to believe that one day the U.S. will elect a pacifist as president or that Gen.

Fort Hood Shootings and the Prophetic 'IF'

Arthur Waskow 11-06-2009

One reader wrote me to ask: " "What effect will the Fort Hood shootings have on the American public's perception of Islam?" That question asks us to be foretellers, fortune tellers, to predict.

Why Interfaith Work Does Not Equal Relativism

Alexis Vaughan 11-03-2009

There is a line in the Riga Veda, a collection of ancient Hindu scripture, that says "Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names." I had heard of this before, but hadn't given i