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| 9/1/2010 |
| John Stoner |
At critical moments Jesus had a way of expecting people to draw on their own resources, to be their "better selves," if you will.
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| 8/25/2010 |
| John Stoner |
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Is anybody thinking about paying taxes for war as a question of discipleship, of following Jesus faithfully?
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| 8/11/2010 |
| John Stoner |
When we meet a person of peace, I understand Jesus to be saying that we should make an invitational response to them.
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| 8/4/2010 |
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Two weeks ago I wrote: Jesus said to his disciples as he sent them out, "When you enter a house, say 'Peace to this house.' And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person, but if not it will return to you."
This process requires at least three things:
1) The belief that there could be a person of peace in the house.
2) A way to recognize a person of peace, to see them when they're there.
3) An appropriate response.
Today a few thoughts on ways to recognize a person of peace. I'm suggesting that we try to notice if people have taken small first steps to be people of peace. Some are obvious, others maybe not so.
Do they welcome a person coming with a message of peace and peacemaking?
Do they show signs of loving their children, family, neighbors, others, themselves?
Do they seem to understand that the world is not all right as it is, needs to change and perhaps could?
These small steps, evident in people's lives, might locate for us more people of peace than we expected!
John K. Stoner jstoner@ecapc.org
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| 7/29/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Last week I suggested three elements of recognizing persons of peace when we enter a house carrying the gospel of peace. The first is to believe that there could be a person of peace in the house.
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| 7/16/2010 |
| John Stoner |
I awoke with fragments of a dream in my mind this morning. As I reflected on it (I do reflect on what I remember of dreams, and find that dreams are like thoughts--some are worth more than others!) I decided that I was hearing that "the conversation is history-making and history-shaping."
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| 7/11/2010 |
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The recent unrest in Oakland California is not a response to merely an episode or an isolated event or problem. It is a response to an ongoing systemic social and cultural crisis. It is a national problem firmly rooted in America’s epic struggle with its institutionalized racism.
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| 7/7/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Paul writes in I Corinthians 15 that Christ died for our sins. But who explains to us what that actually means?
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| 6/30/2010 |
| John Stoner |
This is a novel set in Mexico and the USA during the Cold War. (Remember that? McCarthyism and all?)
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| 6/23/2010 |
| John Stoner |
For summer reading I have several books to recommend. Today, THE GREAT EMERGENCE, by Phyllis Tickle.
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| 6/9/2010 |
| John Stoner |
The first ECAPC Paxion Training Institute in Atlanta last weekend was a success by many standards, thanks to your prayers, God's grace and the spirit of the participants.
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| 6/2/2010 |
| John Stoner |
I invite you to join me in prayer today through Friday for the ECAPC conference convening in Atlanta. I will be leaving home shortly to participate.
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| 5/19/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Forty three years ago Dr. Martin Luther King preached a prophetic and historic sermon on war and peace, Vietnam and America. Have you heard it?
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| 5/12/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Today I am sharing again a reflection I wrote in January 2008 on the vision of ECAPC.
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| 5/10/2010 |
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Don’t miss this opportunity to attend the Unifying Vision Conference: The Creation and Sustenance of Paxion Ministries: How and Why at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center in Peachtree City, GA, June 2-4, 2010!
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| 4/24/2010 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the theological drift of the Christian Church. It seems to me that the Church is almost spiritually and theologically bankrupt.
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| 4/22/2010 |
| John Stoner |
The June ECAPC conference announced last week by Matthew Johnson in this space might be seen as launching a decade to embrace nonviolence. Is that possible?
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| 4/17/2010 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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ECAPC has organized a conference/training institute, Unifying Vision Conference and Training Insitutute: The Creation and Sustenance of Paxion Ministries: How and Why.
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| 4/1/2010 |
| Rudi Peters |
A story of courage in the way of Jesus from the years of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
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| 3/19/2010 |
| John Stoner |
What are you going to say to the government on April 15 about the way it spends your tax dollars?
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| 3/3/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Most Americans are conscientious objectors to slavery, torture and rape. Some are conscientious objectors to war.
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| 2/24/2010 |
| John Stoner |
Are we praying for peace and paying for war? Do we think as much about paying taxes for war as we complain about paying taxes in general?
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| 2/6/2010 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
Rev. Emmanuel Scott Sr. once told a group of young preachers wrangling over the narrow obstructionism in so many African American churches that often prohibits prospects for meaningful progress that, “when people hate you without a reason, you can give them “reason” to love you.”
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| 2/3/2010 |
| John Stoner |
How long will the American people continue to pay for the imperial wars (the so-called war on terrorism) of America? More pointedly, how long will Christians continue to pay for what, I fervently hope and want to believe, millions of them would not do personally and directly?
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| 1/18/2010 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
William Blake saw;
“A world in a grain of sand,
A Heaven in a wild flower,
Held infinity in the palm of his hand
Eternity in an hour”
Pat Robertson saw an apocalypse in a disaster.
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| 1/14/2010 |
| John Stoner |
The Unifying Visions program of ECAPC seeks to unite the historic Black justice movement and the historic peace church movement in this country. Martin Luther King's decision to speak out against war as well as racial injustice was an historic step in this direction.
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| 1/6/2010 |
| John Stoner |
On December 23 I wrote a meditation here titled "Fear Not." The recent political and media frenzy over the attempt to sabotage a plane reminds us why Jesus repeatedly warned us not to be driven by fear.
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| 12/30/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Today I came across a commentary I wrote a week after 9/11 in 2001. I said at the time that the nation and the church needed a conversion on the question of violence. It seems like we still need that conversion, so I'm re-running that article today.
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| 12/16/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Continuing to recommend AMBASSADORS OF RECONCILIATION, a book I identified here some weeks ago (click "view archive" and look at 11/18/09), today I'm sharing a quote from Myers and Enns. They speak of Jesus as one who was not only a babe in a manger, but who disturbed the status quo as Dr. Martin Luther King did.
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| 12/13/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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How fashionable has it become to put down belief; and yet, how utterly inane! Nevertheless, what is it that tempts us to seek out the most noble and highest ideals to hold up to the ridicule of cynicism, if it is not the powerful attraction of the ideal itself?
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| 12/8/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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We tend to think of sin as indulgence in sensual pleasure. Consequently we think of temptation, almost exhaustively, as the lure of self-indulgence in things that titillate our senses.
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| 12/3/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Last Saturday Matthew Johnson wrote in this space, "Where is the voice of the wildernes?" The prophets of Israel, and no doubt of other cultures, tend to speak from the margins of society, from the wilderness.
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| 11/29/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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On the eve of yet another dress rehearsal for “peace on earth and goodwill toward all men,” I wonder about the troops making ready for yet another deployment on foreign soil, tasked to kill or be killed. This is not the change I had hoped for.
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| 11/18/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Here is more, as promised, on Ched Myers' and Elaine Enns' book AMBASSADORS OF RECONCILIATION. They begin with Martin Luther King's vision of "the beloved community," in which, he says, "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
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| 11/11/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Last Saturday Matthew Johnson wrote in this space "Thou Art the Nation," from the words of Samuel the prophet to David the King. He concluded by saying that no church can ignore its complicity in this state of affairs.
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| 11/8/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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With all the discussion lately on the mental and I dare say spiritual costs of war, I could not help but to think back to the demonic triumphalism and blood lust that skewed judgment and skewered reason that got us here in the first place.
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| 11/4/2009 |
| John Stoner |
My reflections on God saving from enemies brought a few interesting responses over the past few weeks, which I much appreciate. Some of you thought I made it too easy and simple, and in a few short paragraphs, I'm sure I did.
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| 10/29/2009 |
| John Stoner |
In Luke's birth of Jesus narrative, Zechariah voices the expectation that the promised "savior" will save Israel from its enemies. This is repeated twice in Zechariah's prophecy.
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| 10/21/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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Faith in God is the foundational alternative to fear. If this sounds trite, or like a truism, it is not. People of faith do not start by dismissing faith as irrelevant, trite or too obvious to bear mentioning.
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| 10/14/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Many people are troubled, and rightly so, by violent images of God in the Hebrew scriptures. But we should question some of the commands attributed to God, if for no other reason, because some of the Old Testament writers themselves questioned them.
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| 10/7/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Worship is the recognition and celebration of God and God's rulership (or kingship) of the world as revealed in Jesus. I suggest that this is a radical thought on worship, or maybe rather, a thought on radical worship.
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| 9/28/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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For the last few weeks, I have been battling the realities of life, at times at and on life’s limits. While we have valorized “The Struggle,” life in its naked essence is at times, itself, a struggle.
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| 9/16/2009 |
| John Stoner |
It was not the fundamentalists of Jesus’ day who saw, through the lens of the Spirit alive in them and the Hebrew scriptures, that Jesus was the promised deliverer.
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| 9/9/2009 |
| John Stoner |
In the national hardly-a-debate on health care, we could ask Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
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| 9/2/2009 |
| John Stoner |
When Jesus sent his disciples into the world, he gave them a commission. It is worth noticing how he worded it.
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| 8/29/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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In a nation more recently preoccupied with the manifestation of strength through violence from the bleached White House walls to the graffiti stained walls of ghettos, the values of courage, valor and nobility have been collapsed to shows of physical force.
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| 8/26/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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If we take right and wrong seriously, can we avoid becoming legalistic without becoming relativistic? I asked that question last week in a reflection on the strong attention which the Psalms give to questions of good and evil, righteous and wicked.
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| 8/19/2009 |
| John Stoner |
I'm reading the Psalms again (it's not for nothing this is called the church's prayer book!) and am impressed how often the theme is right and wrong, or good and evil.
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| 8/5/2009 |
| John Stoner |
On Friday July 31 I attended C. T. Vivian's 85th birthday celebration in Atlanta, Georgia. This was also the launch event for the C. T. Vivian Institute for leadership training. What an experience!
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| 8/1/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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I recently read another brilliant book by the psychologist of religion James W. Jones entitled, Blood That Cries Out From The Earth. The book explored the socially dangerous and psychologically toxic nature of fundamentalism in religion
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| 7/25/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
After watching the endless, I mean endlessly hypocritical coverage of the Henry “Skip” Gates’ arrest and President Obama’s initial response, I reached a point where the utter moral disgust overwhelmed me. So I went....
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| 7/22/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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Is it possible that we cannot live--cannot be truly alive--without receiving new ideas on a regular basis ....
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| 7/15/2009 |
| John Stoner |
I think that ECAPC is tapping into this great power for change. What is it?
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| 7/12/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
With a twist of phrase, Steve Wonder left the common sense world of Newtonian mechanics, joined time and space in a marriage of meaning, and then collapsed them both into eternity.
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| 7/8/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Many people, of my generation at least, memorized Psalm 1. But how many have memorized Psalm 2?
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| 7/1/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Any society which tries to live in contradiction to fundamental (axiomatic) truths about human nature is in trouble.
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| 6/24/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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The ECAPC board meeting in Atlanta last week, for which I asked you to pray two weeks ago, affirmed Every Church A Peace Church's commitment to the umbrella concept of Unifying Visions.
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| 6/21/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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Its time-in for Father’s Day. It’s time for all Fathers to take a time-in. Particularly African American fathers; and not because we’ve failed but rather because extra care is needed for our young.
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| 6/17/2009 |
| John Stoner |
I am reading THE END OF VICTORY CULTURE: COLD WAR AMERICA AND THE DISILLUSIONING OF A GENERATION by Tom Englehardt (University of Mass, 1995 & 2007). It is like a window on the soul of America.
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| 6/13/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
The twentieth century was filled with great scientific discoveries and cataclysmic historical upheavals. Just as great upheavals in our understanding of the universe, like the discovery of the quanta yielded new sciences and technological advances, historical upheavals led to some discoveries about humanity and our depths.
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| 6/10/2009 |
| John Stoner |
The ECAPC board will meet in Atlanta next Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be there. This is an invitation for your prayers, and your thoughts as well.
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| 6/6/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
Every Church A Peace Church comes to its present work in an unusual time. It occurred to me how unusual listening to President Obama’s speech in a region of Africa culturally connected to the Middle East.
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| 6/3/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Matthew's commentary on racism and the right wing objections to the Sotomayer nomination went beneath the surface. It helped me to understand what is going on.
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| 5/30/2009 |
| Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
The attacks on Judge Sotomayor indicate the complications involved in the continuing denial and self-deception not simply of the right wing in America but most all of America on the issue or race and racism.
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| 5/27/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Nonkilling is one of those unusual words that says a lot without saying very much.
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| 5/25/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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When what you wear is what you are, you have become an integrated, healthy in deed whole (as much as wholeness is possible in this life) human being. The fact that Jesus’ garment was without seem, woven from top to bottom is emblematic of the life that he lived.
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| 5/20/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Most Christians are conscientious objectors to slavery, torture and sexual discrimination. ECAPC asks them to become conscientious objectors to war.
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| 5/15/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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It is virtually meaningless to speak of peace without a commitment to rid our culture and the world of the rapacious, exploitative spirit that has inspired a cruel and sustained negligence of a world and nature that we all share. I recently gave an interview that some of you may have listened to thanks to the good graces of our brother John Stoner in which I stated in essence that America’s past is not only a part of our present but indeed is essential to overcoming our present spiritual crisis reflected in the symptomatic expression of pervasive violence. The struggle of our Apache brothers and sisters in Arizona is a perfect illustration.
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| 5/15/2009 |
| John Stoner |
The fate of Native American lands in Arizona is a signal of the fate of the earth. This is not so much an assertion as a report. We see the earth groaning under the burden of rapacious exploitation of resources. Here is a place where action can be taken.
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| 5/7/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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In his commentary last Saturday Matthew Johnson reflected on Jesus' Great Invitation: "Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11). In an eloquent, soaring statement he says we do not easily understand either the reality of the oppressed nor the meaning of the invitation for ourselves. I think (just my opinion) that Matthew connected this commentary with the radio talk show in which he participated, from Oakland, CA, addressing "violence in America." Matthew shared the link to that talk show. I want to take that further, and urge you to click on that conversation and think about it.
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| 5/3/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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Adrift in a life where fragments of fragile loves, ruined relationships, aborted innocence and shattered dreams float by like drift wood along the dark current of troubled times, a young man picks up a gun and finds a friend.
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| 4/29/2009 |
| John Stoner |
In my reading recently I came upon this line from Madeleine L'Engle, and I offer it as a way to think about sharing both our faith in Christ and our vision for ECAPC:
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| 4/28/2009 |
| Joan Haan |
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It is with profound sadness and thanksgiving for a life well lived, that we honor Laurie Garfield, former ECAPC Board Member and active member of the Twin Cities ECAPC community. Laurie died April 22, 2009 from complications relating to pancreatic cancer.
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| 4/22/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Today I comment on the exciting news announced Saturday by Matthew Johnson, that ECAPC is launching its Unifying Visions Initiatives and Paxion Centers.
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| 4/19/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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Every Church A Peace Church (ECAPC) is a national organization based in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr., the recently named National Executive Director has established two initiatives to help people in urban areas, particularly youth, affect change and become aware of their self-worth as they learn the historical dynamic of how peace and justice movements affect race, economics, and culture.
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| 4/18/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr., the recently named National Executive Director has established two initiatives to help people in urban areas, particularly youth, affect change and become aware of their self-worth as they learn the historical dynamic of how peace and justice movements affect race, economics, and culture. The project is funded by a $235,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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| 4/15/2009 |
| John Stoner |
My wife and I sent this letter of war tax resistance with our federal income tax (again) this year.
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| 4/11/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
The suffering of Christ reminds us that humanity has a long history of violence perpetuated through institutions, group animosities and interpersonal hostilities. Christ’s passion reminds us that the vulnerable, the poor, the exposed and the good are more often subjected to the worst of it. Yet Jesus clearly demonstrates that the violent inflection on human history is not the will of God. He shows us that it need not be the way it is however “natural” it seems to some. Through his Passion he offered us a more excellent way. We are to affirm the goodness of a loving God in the midst of this world’s violence. We are to affirm the presence of a countervailing power with an endurance that in its very appearance through us attests to the reality of a living and loving God.
It is in the histories of the oppressed that we most clearly, though not of course exclusively, see both the malady as well as the cure for the pathology of abusive power. America as a national community must come to terms with its ongoing reliance on its own legacy of violence if we are to ever approach, as a National grouping the, Beloved Community. The book, The Passion of the Lord: African American Reflections edited by Dr. James Noel of San Francisco Theological Seminary and Dr. Matthew V. Johnson of ECAPC written in part as a response to the discussion around Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Lord is a good place to start rethinking this enduring reality and its theological significance.
Lets us renew our commitment through our own protracted passion to a non-violent future of justice and peace by deepening our appreciation of our own violent pass. Let us celebrate our Lord’s resurrection as the promise of our own ultimate triumph.
A Friend of the Crucified,
Rev. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. Ph. D
National Executive Director of ECAPC
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| 4/8/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Holy Week, when Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, is an appropriate time to look for the corrupters of economic institutions in our own society.
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| 4/1/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Yesterday I took a short walk with my two and a half year old grandson in rural Kansas.
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| 3/25/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Every healthy economy is based on the production of goods and services which are useful and life-sustaining.
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| 3/24/2009 |
| John Stoner |
I need your help to select the ten best books on peace which ECAPC will promote on our web site.
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| 3/24/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Have you considered the on-line ECAPC Peace Church Registry?
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| 3/4/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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Imprisonment of its own citizens, oppression of its workers and lies are three reasons for not trusting the corporate American dream which Matthew Johnson has given in his last three Saturday commentaries.
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| 2/25/2009 |
| John Stoner |
A response by Michael Hardin to last Wednesday's commentary on the signs of the times raised questions about violence.
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| 2/18/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Jesus once chided his disciples for being able to read the signs of the weather but not the signs of their own time (Luke 12).
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| 2/11/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Have you listened to our director's speech on-line here, given to the recent peace conference in Philadelphia?
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| 2/7/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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There is no more revolutionary pressure in the world than that of a commitment to social transformation through nonviolent means
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| 2/4/2009 |
| John Stoner |
I read an article this week by Chris Hedges titled “It’s Not Going to Be OK.”
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| 1/28/2009 |
| John Stoner |
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In his interview yesterday with al-Arabiya television in Dubai, president Obama said:
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| 1/21/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Will the president save the people or must the people save the president? ...
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| 1/17/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
There are times in our lives when it appears that we’ve run out of chances. There are times when we feel as though our life has become all it shall ever be; that it is one long protracted winter with no spring in sight. There are times that though we hold out hope,...
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| 1/14/2009 |
| John Stoner |
A few weeks ago I recommended the book THE GREAT TURNING: FROM EMPIRE TO EARTH COMMUNITY by David Korten. I return to that today, to urge and plead with you to obtain this piece of wisdom.
In the current horror of Israel’s savage attack on Gaza, ...neither Israel nor Hamas ....
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| 1/10/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
Productivity is a gift from God. It is the generative power that flows through nature bringing life and empowerment to all living creatures. God graces the land with His presence and it brings forth the things that make us healthy, happy and whole. ...
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| 1/7/2009 |
| John Stoner |
Matthew's commentary last Saturday lifted up Jesus' promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against his church.
Some of Matthew's sentences spoke of "power" or "strength." He said: ...
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| 1/3/2009 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
I passed by the gates of hell and from beyond its steely frame I could hear the hissing threats and accusations made against His church. This is the enemy’s main and most effective mode of assault against the church of God. ...
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| 12/31/2008 |
| John Stoner |
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On the eve of inauguration and the new year, as important as it is, there are a couple of questions more important than the question "Will Obama keep his promises?"
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| 12/24/2008 |
| John Stoner |
"The twenty four "Memos to President Obama" in the January issue of SOJOURNERS are interesting for what they omit as well as for what they include. ..."
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| 12/18/2008 |
| John Stoner |
Two opportunities converge at this season of Advent and birth of the Prince of Peace.
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| 12/13/2008 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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Gliding in on historical winds of trade that carry in their currents the fate of men and nations, storms of greater or lesser strength and duration blow in and through our lives.
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| 12/10/2008 |
| John Stoner |
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Bill McKibbon offers real help for thinking about the failing economy, in his 2007 book DEEP ECONOMY.
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| 11/26/2008 |
| John Stoner |
11/26/08
America has elected a new president. But before that happened, Every Church A Peace Church appointed a new national director. (What this means for you and me--read more.)
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| 11/22/2008 |
| Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
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We seek the self-conscious unification of the peace and justice movements as the authentic expression of the gospel we confess.
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| 11/20/2008 |
| John Stoner |
Today ECAPC renews regular communications with you our readers.
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| 11/12/2008 |
| Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. |
It is a remarkable moment. The election of Barak Obama is not, however, the end of our struggle; nor is it yet the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. It is time for the struggle for justice and true democracy to mature and the mission of the church in the modern world to come of age. (This message was delivered November 7, 2008 at the Akron Mennonite Church in Akron, PA by Matthew Johnson, the new director of Every Church A Peace Church - click More to read online or download a PDF copy)
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| 10/17/2008 |
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On Friday, November 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr., National Director of Every Church A Peace Church, will speak at Akron Mennonite Church. The church is located at 1311 Diamond St., Akron, PA. Directions http://www.akronmench.org/findus.htm
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| 2/29/2008 |
| John Stoner |
But can humans really do better? Also, information on Darfur, Sudan.
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| 2/26/2008 |
| John Stoner |
Any help from Jesus on the old debate around "justice" and "peace"?
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| 2/24/2008 |
| John Stoner |
How do we understand Jesus' message as we think of engaging world religions?
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| 2/20/2008 |
| Dan Shubin |
Reflection by ECAPC supporter Dan Shubin of the Molokan church.
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| 2/18/2008 |
| John Stoner |
Have you visited the website of the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq?
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| 2/15/2008 |
| John Stoner |
Every person who turns toward peace turns part of the world toward peace.
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| 2/9/2008 |
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Christian Peace Witness for Iraq calls for prayer, and offers prayers.
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| 2/1/2008 |
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See how the churches in New Orleans are working.
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| 1/26/2008 |
| Joan Haan |
Joan Haan, ECAPC board member, concludes series on interfaith-dialogue.
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| 1/25/2008 |
| Joan Haan |
Joan Haan, new ECAPC Board Member, shares more on interfaith-dialogue
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| 1/23/2008 |
| Joan Haan |
Joan Haan, new ECAPC board member, shares a series on interfaith-dialogue.
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| 1/22/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Michael Piazza, new ECAPC board member, shares important issues from his website.
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| 1/21/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Issues addressed by Hope for Peace and Justice, Michael Piazza, ECAPC board member
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| 1/20/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Issues addressed by Hope for Peace and Justice, founded by Michael Piazza, ECAPC board member
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| 1/19/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Introducing ECAPC Board Member Michael Piazza, and Hope for Peace and Justice issues
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| 1/18/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Combining Issues for Hope for Peace and Justice and M.L. King Day resources
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| 1/17/2008 |
| Michael Piazza |
Introducing ECAPC Board Member Michael Piazza and Hope for Peace and Justice
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| 1/15/2008 |
| Anonymous |
Consider this March 7 worship and witness in Washington, DC
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| 1/14/2008 |
| John Carmody |
Looking particularly at the conscience of the military chaplain.
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| 1/8/2008 |
| Tom Trzyna |
Fifth in a series of six by Tom Tyrzna on the Arab world. Also: Conference call tonight.
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| 1/7/2008 |
| Tom Trzyna |
The fourth in Tom Trzyna's series of six on the Arab world.
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| 1/4/2008 |
| Tom Trzyna |
First in a series of six by Tom Tyrzna on the Arab world.
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| 12/27/2007 |
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The "millennium." Plus some feedback on yesterday's commentary.
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| 12/18/2007 |
| John Stoner |
More than a conscience for the state, or empire, the church was an alternative to it.
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| 12/12/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Something of how political sovereignty yields to God's sovereignty within history.
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| 12/2/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The church is called now to steadfast resistance to the seductions of empire.
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| 11/29/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Was it about money and economics, and ultimate loyalties/worship?
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| 11/23/2007 |
| John Stoner |
In the midst of the beast's imagery, a call to resist the beast.
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| 11/21/2007 |
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On killing people and causes of PTSD.
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| 11/18/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Essential Old Testament background for John's thought about political sovereignty.
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| 11/17/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Notice the setting of this frightening description of empire.
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| 11/16/2007 |
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Rome is symbolized by the beast.
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| 11/15/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Struggle on earth has been illuminated by the struggle in heaven.
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| 11/14/2007 |
| John Stoner |
A great victory in heaven gives hope in the present struggle on earth.
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| 10/27/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The alternative community comprised of the servants of God is disclosed.
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| 10/24/2007 |
| John Stoner |
More help in understanding our times and putting Revelation in context.
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| 10/22/2007 |
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This is how the empire works; recognize it!
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| 10/21/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The first preview of the historical process from the heaven/earth bi-focal view.
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| 10/20/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The Lamb Jesus is exalted in worship by the community of faithful witness.
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| 10/17/2007 |
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The stage is set for a vision of who is in control of history.
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| 10/13/2007 |
| John Stoner |
A fifteenth work of discipleship in the book of Revelation.
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| 10/12/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Change your way of thinking...and reap a better consequence.
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| 10/5/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Disciples are challenged to maintain a strong hold on the name of Jesus.
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| 10/4/2007 |
| John Stoner |
To "keep" may seem like a small word and a small thing, but...
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| 9/30/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The task of testing claims to truth, and claimants to authority.
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| 9/26/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Looking more carefully at the ethics, or discipleship teaching, of John in The Revelation.
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| 9/24/2007 |
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This is a monetary and moral assessment.
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| 9/22/2007 |
| John Stoner |
We need more perspective on the forest before we look at the trees.
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| 9/21/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Read today's commentary as a summary statement on yesterday's "fornication and idolatry."
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| 9/20/2007 |
| John Stoner |
What kind of failures to walk the way of Jesus do these words signify in Revelation?
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| 9/19/2007 |
| Harry O. Maier |
Add this to the commentaries a few days ago on "the seductions of empire."
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| 9/16/2007 |
| Harry O. Maier |
More evidence that we're on the right track when looking at the words which call to discipleship.
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| 9/14/2007 |
| John Stoner |
What kind of coercive pressure did Roman power put on those early disciples?
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| 9/13/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Some analysis of the components of social control by empires.
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| 9/12/2007 |
| John Stoner |
What were the tests of faith for the Christians in John's readership?
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| 9/11/2007 |
| John Stoner |
John helped the churches take stock of their place in history; we must do the same.
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| 9/7/2007 |
| Daniel Berrigan |
Signs and symbols in Revelation reveal truth about history, the empire, hope in God.
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| 9/4/2007 |
| John Stoner |
How were John's churches relating to, thinking about, the empire?
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| 9/2/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The Human One appears to John, speaking with the voice of a trumpet.
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| 9/1/2007 |
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Allstate Insurance exposes the immorality of military recruiting.
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| 8/31/2007 |
| John Stoner |
With apologies for the delay, I share some of your inspiring comments!
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| 8/18/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Here's a book to help you understand our times--maybe your neighbors.
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| 8/16/2007 |
| John Stoner |
In addition to reading the book of Revelation, read some commentary material.
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| 8/11/2007 |
| Chris Hedges |
Author of WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING predicts the future in Iraq.
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| 8/10/2007 |
| Greg Mitchell |
What they don't want you to see or know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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| 8/7/2007 |
| Gene Stoltzfus |
Yesterday I gave some notice to Hiroshima Day. Here are some thoughts by our friend.
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| 8/5/2007 |
| John Stoner |
I was demonstrating for peace in front of the War College again today.
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| 8/4/2007 |
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We have slain our brother.
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| 8/3/2007 |
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Are we permitting popular ideas to displace Jesus?
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| 7/29/2007 |
| John Stoner |
A peace church is neither and both conservative and liberal.
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| 7/28/2007 |
| John Stoner |
What would begin to be an adequate response to the church's shameful history of warmaking and persecution?
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| 7/27/2007 |
| John Stoner |
To honor the witness and memory of pacifists in history.
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| 7/26/2007 |
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It is the wave of the future; pragmatically, any future there is will look like this.
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| 7/25/2007 |
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood, chairman of the Hip Hop Caucus, speaks out against war in Iraq.
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| 7/15/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Read the text of Revelation, but also read some good commentary!
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| 7/14/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Those who are in poverty have the greatest stake in speaking out for peace.
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| 7/13/2007 |
| John Stoner |
A perspective on the strategy of Christian Peace Witness for Iraq.
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| 7/12/2007 |
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Again today we invite you to help CPWI form a strategy, planning a public witness.
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| 7/10/2007 |
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You have an opportunity here to help to plan Christian witness against war, for peace, in Iraq.
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| 7/9/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The peace church alternative to Pharaoh's nightmare of scarcity and militarism.
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| 7/6/2007 |
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The story of an American soldier interrogating a Muslim.
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| 7/5/2007 |
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Children understand the peace church.
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| 7/4/2007 |
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All religions are welcome in the circle of nonviolent struggle.
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| 7/3/2007 |
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Hope for humanity's future.
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| 7/2/2007 |
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Transcend nationalism, affirm loyalty to humanity.
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| 6/30/2007 |
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Peace churches address racism.
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| 6/29/2007 |
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Christian Peacemaker Congress in Toronto
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| 6/28/2007 |
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One important element of the Covenant--on PBS TV this evening.
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| 6/27/2007 |
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Eight Democratic Presidential Candidates will appear on PBS.
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| 6/26/2007 |
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A Franciscan benediction.
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| 6/24/2007 |
| Penny Fruth |
A second prayer by Penny Fruth. Her "Pretzel" prayer was carried last Sunday.
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| 6/20/2007 |
| Diane Ford Jones |
Words that matter--from the June 10 End The Occupation of Palestine Rally in Washington DC.
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| 6/19/2007 |
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A letter from Dick Davis, Board Chair, and minutes of the meeting.
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| 6/12/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The Washinton rally Sunday to end the occupation exposed a national shame in America.
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| 6/11/2007 |
| John Stoner |
To participate in an inclusive community, join the peace church movement.
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| 6/8/2007 |
| John Stoner |
I received an appeal today for a man fleeing torture in Egypt; you can help.
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| 6/7/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The world is looking for a livable future...the church could help!
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| 6/6/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Consider Dan Shubin's book on the church's tragic dance with military power.
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| 6/4/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The peace church way of practiced love and nonviolent compassion is stronger than death in the struggle against evil.
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| 6/3/2007 |
| John Stoner |
To explore and experiment with the power of compassion, love and nonviolence.
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| 6/2/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
It is good to see people protesting this war or any war, but how often is it in the name of Jesus?
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| 6/1/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Sign the registry in order to create a place for people of conscience.
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| 5/30/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Do we admire Muslims to are peaceful rather than war-justifiers?
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| 5/28/2007 |
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What is the relationship of justice and peace?
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| 5/27/2007 |
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A text on peace and justice.
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| 5/25/2007 |
| Allan Bostelmann |
Allan Bostelmann, Duluth, Minnesota, takes us back to the beginning of ECAPC, and the future.
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| 5/24/2007 |
| Rick Judy |
Rick Judy reflects on the witness of those who refuse to wear the uniform.
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| 5/21/2007 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King's BEYOND VIETNAM speech in perspective: Dr. Vincent Harding, and Rose Marie Berger.
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| 5/20/2007 |
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This small step could be a big step...
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| 5/19/2007 |
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A life re-dedicated to Jesus leads to conscientious objection to war.
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| 5/18/2007 |
| John Stoner |
One would wish that such graphic communication was not necessary, but by all evidence, it is.
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| 5/17/2007 |
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Can we improve on the call for every church to be a peace church?
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| 5/16/2007 |
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A one-minute video with a two hour or a two year message.
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| 5/15/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Six goals for ECAPC are under study by the Board. Your input is sought.
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| 5/14/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Following up yesterday, we invite your comment to the other suggested ECAPC vision statement.
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| 5/12/2007 |
| Dan Shubin |
Final article by Dan Shubin on Miliarist Christendom and the Gospel of the Prince of Peace
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| 5/10/2007 |
| Dick Davis |
A letter regarding ECAPC vision from Richard Davis, ECAPC Board Chair.
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| 5/9/2007 |
| Dan Shubin |
Number 10, next to last in Dan Shubin's series on conscientious objection to war.
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| 5/8/2007 |
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Readers write; stories from home.
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| 5/7/2007 |
| Dan Shubin |
Dan Shuban's personal testimony and stance on conscientious objection to war.
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| 4/28/2007 |
| Dan Shubin |
Dan Shubin, of the ECAPC Speakers Bureau, writes on Christian pacifism.
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| 4/27/2007 |
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How has ECAPC affected your life?
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| 4/25/2007 |
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Plan now for a trip to Toronto!
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| 4/23/2007 |
| Evelyn Hannemn |
You could follow the "restorative justice" track at the BPFNA conference this summer!
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| 4/21/2007 |
| Anonymous |
A Christian Century article on how our notions of the Bible were formed...
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| 4/19/2007 |
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This may surprise you a little.
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| 4/18/2007 |
| Craig A. Carter |
Maybe the Niebuhrian formulation is not infallible--or even the best available.
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| 4/16/2007 |
| Craig A. Carter |
Does a Christendom Church maintain the unity, catholicity, etc. of the church?
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| 4/13/2007 |
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A call for action in Washington DC on June 11.
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| 4/9/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Looking at a new book, RETHINKING CHRIST AND CULTURE: A Post-Christendom Perspective, by Craig A. Carter
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| 4/8/2007 |
| Anonymous |
Dr. Garland Robinson, pastor of Austin Mennonite Church, a former Air Force chaplain, tells why he opposes war.
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| 4/7/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Today, in the Moravian tradition, we recognize the Great Sabbath. The day the disciples were without Jesus.
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| 4/2/2007 |
| Lorri Hardin |
Lorri Hardin's second reflection on "The Will of God." (March 22 commentary).
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| 4/1/2007 |
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Lorri Hardin shares the first of two responses today, to Rick Stamm's "the will of God."
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| 3/31/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
What might be seen behind that familiar picure of Christ knocking at "our heart's door?"
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| 3/30/2007 |
| John Stoner |
"Making Peace" - A five-day conference that has changed lives, and it could change yours.
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| 3/29/2007 |
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A brief, impressionistic video of the Washginton witness by Ken Butigan, supporter of ECAPC.
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| 3/28/2007 |
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A reflection on arrest at the White House.
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| 3/27/2007 |
| Martin A. Bates |
Martin Bates from Kansas reflects on why he was civilly disobedient at the Christian Peace Witness in Washington.
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| 3/25/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
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I've been asked to share my military experiences with a Sunday School class in our community along with a person who chose to resist the draft and not even register. I am eager to hear his story and experiences. For my part, I will focus on the church.
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| 3/24/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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The snow was already falling and the bus was parked in front of the church when we arrived. It would be a seven hour drive to Washington DC where we would worship with other peaceful Christians and walk the four miles to the White House for the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq.
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| 3/23/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Ever miss a deadline? Where does the time go? How would Jesus want us to spend our time?
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| 3/22/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
The term "the will of God" has troubled me for some time. I have finally found an interpretation that is helpful.
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| 3/21/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Karen Horst Cobb's Thesis #1: Kindness and generosity are the characteristics of Christ. Is this your picture of Jesus?
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| 3/20/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Pause, Pray, Meditate, Wonder. What if every church had been a peace church on March 20, 2003?
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| 3/19/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Karen Horst Cobb's Thesis #2: One cannot kill for Jesus. This is why I am connected with Every Church A Peace Church.
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| 3/18/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Karen Horst Cobb's Thesis #3: The new Jerusalem is not real estate. If you have looked into Dispensationalism you know this is an important one.
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| 3/17/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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At times I get discouraged and wonder if anyone is listening but I am compelled to continue. This week I received a letter from Gwen Nawa Johnson from Botswana. Her letter explains better than any words I have why Christians must reclaim the meaning of the words, teachings and life of Jesus.
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| 3/16/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
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Karen Horst Cobb's Thesis #5: The free market is not the "good news". Living in a capitalistic society and owning a business, I find it important to pay attention to this one. It is easy to get caught up in the material side of life.
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| 3/15/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Karen Horst Cobb's Thesis #7: The word of God is not a book. Now here is one that can get some discussion going.
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| 3/14/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Karen Horst Cobb has challenged me to consider her theses. Working from the bottom up - #9: Comfort is not our birthright.
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| 3/13/2007 |
| Rick Stamm |
Martin Luther did it because reform was needed in the church. What about today?
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| 3/12/2007 |
| John Stoner |
We have seen it in Jesus: the way, the truth and the life. We have seen a way for the church in the world. A possibility of peace for the world has been opened up. The church could turn the world toward peace, if every church lived and taught as Jesus lived and taught. Jesus began the work, it is up to us to finish it.
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| 3/11/2007 |
| John Stoner |
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From the cross Jesus said: “Father, forgive them.” For the disciples to take up the practice of forgiveness would be taking up their cross and following Jesus; because for Jesus, the cross meant forgiveness.
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| 3/10/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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If a criminal broke into your home and were threatening your children don’t you think God would want you to protect them and shoot the intruder? This scenario is a “way which seemeth right unto a man.”
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| 3/9/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The work which Jesus did, which his disciples were to continue, was first the work of telling the truth. That was a work which, among other things, was disturbing--to people, to the status quo, to the powers who thought themselves rulers and shepherds of the people.
The work of Jesus was a work of resistance, which took him ultimately to the cross.
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| 3/8/2007 |
| John Stoner |
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But we’re like Philip when Jesus sends us out--we just want to know a little more about God before we go on this mission, because we’re supposed to somehow represent God, or God’s message. And Jesus says, “have you been with me all this time, and you still haven’t seen God, you’re not beginning to understand God’s way; the way God is replacing that old strategy of holocaust, of flood, to kill all the evildoers?”
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| 3/7/2007 |
| John Stoner |
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So Jesus sent them out to enter homes and to say, first thing, “Peace to his house.” Then he says, Watch the response of the folks in the house. If anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person. But if not, it will return to you.
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| 3/6/2007 |
| John Stoner |
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Jesus speaks again, Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14.
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| 3/5/2007 |
| John Stoner |
The Message is not that Jesus is God-like, or that Jesus is divine, but that God is Jesus-like; God is like...human.
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| 3/3/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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Christianity is under investigation. Months ago the intriguing novel “The De Vinci Code” was at the top of the best sellers list. This week the morning news reported that the remains of Jesus were exhumed from an ancient tomb. Rather than nervously reciting the Christian confession of faith, we can continue to live out the teachings of Jesus in confidence, unshaken.
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| 2/27/2007 |
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A great, great irony.
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| 2/20/2007 |
| John Stoner |
First in a multiple segment story on the mission of the church.
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| 2/19/2007 |
| John Stoner |
This DVD removes some of the blinders put on us by the propaganda machine of government and media.
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| 2/16/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Have you thought of car pooling, or chartering a bus, to the Christian Peace Witness?
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| 2/15/2007 |
| Robert Inchausti |
The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man. See also, Bus to Washington, March 16.
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| 2/12/2007 |
| Rick Ufford-Chase |
Rick Ufford-Chase, executive director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, founder of Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, speaks to the question of inter-faith work and Christian identity. Also an endorsement from Robert Edgar, National Council of churches.
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| 2/6/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Why does the church have to hold its own peace rally on March 16?
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| 1/22/2007 |
| Michael Hardin |
Some paragraphs from the Nonviolent Atonement Conference, today and tomorrow at Akron, PA.
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| 1/20/2007 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
But first it will make us uncomfortable. See documentation added later on January 20 to original post of this article.
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| 1/15/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Every Church a Peace Chuch welcomes its new national director.
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| 1/11/2007 |
| Gary Kohls, M.D. |
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
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| 1/10/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Yes, the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq" on March 16 in Washington DC. Plan to come!
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| 1/9/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Today is the first day of a two day working conference to explore the development of a peace theology.
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| 1/8/2007 |
| Chris Hedges |
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These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters. They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority.
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| 1/5/2007 |
| John Stoner |
Join this historic Christian peace witness in Washington on March 16.
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| 1/4/2007 |
| Anonymous |
Speak out for peace, against war, in Washington on Saturday, January 27.
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| 1/3/2007 |
| Kathy Kelly |
This may be the most neglected reality in considering the causes of war.
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| 12/24/2006 |
| Johann Hari |
What would happen if The Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?
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| 12/22/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Let's gather for an honest discussion of how we interpret the Bible.
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| 12/16/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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If there is only one gift under the tree in humanity’s living room, what do we hope it is?
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| 12/5/2006 |
| Anonymous |
A matter for prayer--former CPT Iraq hostages to speak regarding trial of their captors.
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| 12/1/2006 |
| Anthony Bartlett |
Meditation on forgiveness by Tony Bartlett--a speaker at the January Atonement Conference.
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| 11/28/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Israel, God's Servant, is not called for special privilege but for special task and duty.
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| 11/27/2006 |
| David Eagle |
A meditation by David Eagle. You can hear him speak at the Nonviolent Atonement Conference, January 22,23.
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| 11/26/2006 |
| Sharon Baker |
A mediation by Sharon Baker. You can hear her speak at the January 22,23 Nonviolent Atonement Conference.
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| 11/24/2006 |
| J. Denny Weaver |
A meditatiin by J. Denny Weaver, one of the featured speakers at the January Nonviolent Atonement Conference.
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| 11/22/2006 |
| Isaiah |
God calls Israel "servant." ALSO TODAY, announcment of a young adult peacemaker training institute.
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| 11/21/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Your prayer and support for Agustin Aguayo would be significant.
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| 11/20/2006 |
| Isaiah |
What does it mean to wait for the Lord?
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| 11/18/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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Let me tell you about a school which teaches torture, execution, extortion, counterinsurgency, sniper training, psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics.
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| 11/17/2006 |
| Isaiah |
A few thousand years ago Isaiah said some things about who's in charge here.
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| 11/16/2006 |
| John Stoner |
An invitation to learn from Jesus, and to carry an easy yoke, a light burden.
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| 11/14/2006 |
| Anthony Bartlett |
Have you seen the PreachingPeace button on our website? Tony Bartlett's introduction to Isaiah is priceless.
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| 11/13/2006 |
| Simon Barrow |
A British Christian writes in EKKLESIA on the controversey around their Remembarance Day. Can we turn from the myth of redemptive violence?
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| 11/12/2006 |
| John Stoner |
We all know the problem of discussing politics in the family...and the church.
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| 11/9/2006 |
| Michael Lerner |
Some commentary on the election by Michael Lerner, Network for Spiritual Progressives.
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| 11/6/2006 |
| Diana Butler Bass |
I was among those who called for forgiveness on the first day of this crazyness, 9/11/01. We do have to keep asking "what if?" and saying "I told you so."
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| 11/6/2006 |
| Glen Stassen |
Thoughts on what is whose at a time when Caesar would like to claim a lot.
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| 11/5/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
After Karen Cobb's meditation on Jesus in his political context yesterday, today we share her reflection on us in our political context.
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| 11/4/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
Have we understood the political implications of the life and teachings of Jesus in his own time? In ours?
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| 11/2/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
We can see in our culture the same violence and scapegoating as in the Bible....
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| 11/1/2006 |
| John Stoner |
The Bible does not speak with one single voice, always agreeing with itself.
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| 10/31/2006 |
| John Stoner |
A positive alternative to scapegoating sacrifice as the way to create and maintain community.
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| 10/30/2006 |
| John Stoner |
What Heim means by "saved from sacrifice" in atonement theology.
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| 10/29/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Somehow the death of Jesus, the cross, is good news as well as a colossal miscarriage of justice.
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| 10/27/2006 |
| John Stoner |
More on yesterday's "two conflicting messages" abut the cross in scripture.
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| 10/26/2006 |
| John Stoner |
The killing of Jesus is dead wrong and God makes something good come of it....
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| 10/25/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Thoughts on leaving a bad interpretation of Jesus for a good interpretation of something else.
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| 10/24/2006 |
| John Stoner |
A book which you will want to read; not all easy reading, therefore, useful.
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| 10/23/2006 |
| Martin A. Bates |
Martin Bates attended the October 20, 21, 2006 conference and reports here.
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| 10/22/2006 |
| Jarrod Cochran |
Jarrod Cochran, an ECAPC speaker's bureau member, writes about the real Jesus.
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| 10/21/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
The Military Commissions Act in historical and Christian-defined-by-Jesus perspective.
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| 10/20/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Continuing the commentary series on the resources of the ECAPC website, today I draw your attention to the Speakers Bureau.
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| 10/19/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Last Thursday I invited your prayers for the CPT Steering Committee meeting, and me as a member of it.
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| 10/18/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Have you read any of the articles on our website collected after 9/11 5 years ago?
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| 10/16/2006 |
| John Stoner |
For those who want to do something for peace, something related to their faith and to the church...
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| 10/15/2006 |
| John Stoner |
If you haven't been on our Articles Page, you haven't been on!
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| 10/14/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
…..I was in prison and you came to me. Matthew 25:36
Nearly a year later Fawzi wrote to his mother, "Now I am detained by the American forces and investigations are still going on…I will be established as innocent soon, and then I will return back to you…"
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| 10/13/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Under Peace Church on the ECAPC home page you will find this treasure too.
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| 10/12/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Have you considered CPT -- training, volunteering, joining a delegation?
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| 10/10/2006 |
| John Stoner |
ECAPC is seeking a national director. See the position description online.
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| 10/9/2006 |
| John Stoner |
The ECAPC website offers meaningful, provocative definitions of "peace church."
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| 10/6/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Have you looked at the ECAPC Vision page? This is growing, modulating. It is not static.
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| 10/5/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Beginning a tour of the ECAPC website, we take you to the Peace Church Registry today.
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| 10/4/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Today, an exciting report from ECAPC, presenting a great challenge and opportunity.
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| 10/3/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Five Amish girls were shot to death yesterday in Lancaster county. We mourn and ask why.
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| 10/2/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Maybe you've heard it before, "Churches are like bar rooms." ...
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| 10/1/2006 |
| John Stoner |
On Friday I asked for your prayers as Michael Hardin and I went to the CSC meeting in New Orleans....
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| 9/28/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Presbyterian Rick Ufford-Chase arrested for war protest...in a Declaration of Peace action.
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| 9/27/2006 |
| Max Ediger |
Forgiveness is not easy, but it is possible. And it is life-giving.
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| 9/22/2006 |
| Brad Rubin |
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Voices on the Middle East Conflict. Are any peace churches and peace church people hearing a call to Jerusalem, to peacemaking in a hard spot?
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| 9/21/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Use your phone to speak for peace; cry out for the victims of war today.
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| 9/20/2006 |
| Gary Kohls, M.D. |
A treasury of truths gleaned by our friend in Duluth, Gary Kohls. Remember where you saw these!
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| 9/19/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Strong, intentional effort is needed to unite peace and justice in American churches.
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| 9/15/2006 |
| Desmond Tutu |
Calling it "the modern successor to the slave trade." It is surely deadly...
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| 9/12/2006 |
| Jean Bricmont |
It might surprise you that this essay, by a Belgian, was written 5 years ago.
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| 9/11/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Do something today for peace and security. And this action to your prayers.
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| 9/6/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Poverty is a peace issue, because we are called to relationship with people in need.
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| 9/2/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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Labor Day in these United States has become a day for shopping and family picnics. Perhaps an understanding of the history of the day may help us look at it as a day to reflect on our obligations as Christians following a non-violent Jesus.
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| 9/1/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Become a peace church to acknowledge that the church cannot accomplish with its prayers what it refuses to practice with its politics. This completes the series; see a link to the full document.
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| 8/31/2006 |
| John Stoner |
49. To embrace the peace church way is to refuse unequivocally to create a wasteland and call it peace.
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| 8/30/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Become a peace church to show that we believe of all adults what every good parent believes of their own children:
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| 8/25/2006 |
| John Stoner |
The peace church agrees with the Spirit of truth and love, breathing life.
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| 8/21/2006 |
| John Stoner |
A peace church embraces a mature attitude toward anticipated results.
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| 8/18/2006 |
| John Stoner |
A voice and action for the poor--another peace church characteristic.
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| 8/17/2006 |
| Ehren Watada |
A couragous speech by war resister Ehren Watada at Veterans convention.
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| 8/16/2006 |
| John Stoner |
What are "The Acts" for which your church is known? Is your church a peace church?
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| 8/14/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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The church’s dream of a heaven in which all of humanity is united is idle and misleading if....
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| 8/13/2006 |
| John Stoner |
What will we do with this little bit of life we have been given?
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| 8/12/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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The people of Jesus’ day sought out a prophet in the wilderness who had strange ideas.
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| 8/11/2006 |
| Cynthia McKinney |
On Tuesday, Cynthia McKinney made this speech after losing a primary election vote.
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| 8/10/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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We write to you in anguish, to express what cannot possibly be contained in words.
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| 8/5/2006 |
| Karen Horst Cobb |
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As ambassadors for the children we support a ceasefire! It might not be “lasting” it might not be “strategic“, but if it lasts 6 months that will be half the lifetime of the youngest one who was killed in Qana last Sunday.
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| 8/3/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
An essay in honor of Rene Girard. Rene is truly a gift to the church from Jesus.
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| 8/1/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
Our reflections on mimetic theory have thus far shown us that there is a great distinction to be made between Jesus’ teaching on following him and the cultural call to participate (justly) in violence. In fact, it is a chasm or even an abyss between the two.
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| 7/31/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
“In the beginning was the weapon.” My friend Andrew McKenna is speaking tongue in cheek here, but he has put his finger on something important. He has suggested that we go to the beginning and see that the consequence of Genesis 2-3 (rivalry, mimesis and blaming) lead to Genesis 4 (murder and culture).
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| 7/30/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
Western Christianity in the 21st century faces many complex problems. It’s major problem, however, is Jesus. Jesus doesn’t seem to fit our solution to violence.
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| 7/28/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
Desire, in mimetic theory, is an interpersonal thing. We are not conceived of as autonomous, not as individual but as interdividual. We are our relationships. So, we are all dancing together, as a species, to the tune of this ‘below the surface’, nonconscious imitation of desire.
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| 7/27/2006 |
| Michael Hardin |
Mimetic theory is a way of looking at humanity; it is anthropology, a way we have of describing ourselves. In this series, Michael Hardin will suggest some of the components of mimetic theory and why he thinks that churches seeking to become peace churches would benefit from learning mimetic theory.
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| 7/25/2006 |
| Gene Stoltzfus |
In August 2003, a few months after the US occupation of Iraq began, I joined with several co-workers to visit Kabala, Najef, and other areas of Southern Shiite Iraq. Our interaction with other visitors that day was instructive. When we finally went our separate ways, my heart was pounding. We, children of the Great Satan, had just had an enormously relaxing conversation with citizens whose nation had recently been called part of the Axis of Evil by the US President. And, the conversation occurred in a Holy Place.
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| 7/24/2006 |
| Gene Stoltzfus |
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Successful stubborn people have a sense of timing but recognize that their time frame may not be widely held.
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| 7/23/2006 |
| Gene Stoltzfus |
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Do I reach the community of fairness and justice by imposing oughts and shoulds?
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| 7/21/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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The fourth leg of a communal table of long-haul spirituality is a commitment to the power of nonviolence.
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| 7/18/2006 |
| John Stoner |
The first of a four-part series on the spiritual roots of active peacemaking.
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| 7/17/2006 |
| John Stoner |
A peace church excludes mere transient self-interest from its considerations.
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| 7/16/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Nonviolent peacemaking is a truth, stance, cause and witness worth dying for; and since in the end we all die for what we lived for, even if we are not martyrs in the traditional sense, to live in a self-identified peace church prepares one for a good death.
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| 7/14/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Sign the peace church registry for the sake of consistency between the nonviolent conflict resolution which we try to teach our children, and the way we act as adults.
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| 7/13/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Join the national registry of peace churches because people are impressed and attracted by lists of people and institutions of virtue, and by large numbers of the same.
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| 7/10/2006 |
| John Stoner |
Declare your church a peace church for the children and grandchildren of the future, so that they have a future.
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| 7/9/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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A good reason to declare one’s church a peace church is as a sign and action of love for the creation, and ecological sanity.
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| 7/7/2006 |
| John Stoner |
On the role of Christian leaders, in the U.S. and Iraq, relating to war .
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| 7/6/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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In an age of “permanent war” the peace church speeaks an unmistakable “no” to war and its causes, and a yes to all that promotes peace and unity.
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| 7/5/2006 |
| John Stoner |
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Institutionally the peace church is the right answer to Jesus’ historic and universal question: Is it lawful to do good or to do harm, to | | | |
