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Wind Posted onMarch 3, 2021June 9, 2021

Peacemaking is about prophecy, not policy

My head and heart ached last week Maybe the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the United States and the most vulnerable people around the […] Read More

Earth Posted onJanuary 8, 2020June 9, 2021

Christian nonviolence and peacemaking is key to restoring our witness

Violence is so heinous that proponents of it must argue for its morality because its immorality is so plain. I wrote that sentence in a […] Read More

Essays Posted onFebruary 12, 2015June 9, 2021

The impracticality of peace and why I love it

I wrote this before the President asked Congress for permission to begin a three-year military campaign against the IS, but as a result it is […] Read More

Essays Posted onNovember 13, 2014June 9, 2021

How a commitment to peace saved my faith

The Circle of Peacemakers inspired me recently to consider why peace is so important to my faith. Here’s my story. Back and forth from my trips […] Read More

Essays Posted onOctober 1, 2014June 9, 2021

Amidst the War in Iraq and the Koch bros, it is a great time to follow Jesus

Barack Obama used the phrase “network of death” last week to describe his new enemies, and I wasn’t the only one who thought it sounded […] Read More

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