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Light of the World
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:14-16
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| John Stoner |
Most Americans are conscientious objectors to slavery, torture and rape. Some are conscientious objectors to war.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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