Earlier this week – Tuesday, I think – a couple of hundred Anabaptists convened in the House of Representatives’ Cannon House Office Building, in Washington DC, to call for a permanent cease-fire in Palestine. The Mennonites sang songs of peace
Dulce et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men
Today is the annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Its the day set apart to remember those people who have been murdered simply because they have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. All violence
Here’s a helpful essay by Miroslav Volf, titled “Christianity and Violence.” Volf delivered this as the 2002 Boardman Lectureship in Christian Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.Peace, dwight
Tomorrow (9/21) is the International Day of Peace. “The day,” according to Kofi Annan “is meant to be a day of global cease-fire. I call on all countries and all people to stop all hostilities for the entire day. I
As you my know, I am strive to live a life of non-violence. Well, I had lunch with Paul Steinke yesterday and we were talking about violence and Christian responses and he was lovingly challenging me on my stance, and
