Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Nobody Wants to Die
Whether it's Kony, Syria or Iran, one thing is clear: Americans think more of military intervention than preemptive love. This wouldn't be surpris...
The Gospel of Rutba: Saved on the Streets of Iraq
Hardly anyone ever visits our community, Rutba House, without asking, “So what does Rutba mean?” Once someone confessed they thought it must be an ...
A Story of Christian-Muslim Friendship: Entering Without Knocking
We all know the standard traditions of marriage in America: something borrowed, something blue... the groom doesn't see the bride before the weddin...
Let Them Eat Cake
That's what she said.
It wasn't out of malice or even hard-heartedness that Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered these now infamous words, but out of...
Kony 2012 and the Golden Rule: How Do 'We' Tell 'Their' Story?
BY: KENT ANNAN -- Joseph Kony recently became an Internet star through Invisible Children's Kony 2012 Campaign. Among...
KONY 2012: Who's Telling the Story?
Joseph Kony, head of the Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, in a rare public appearance, 2006. Photo by Adam Pletts/Getty Images.
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A Nonviolent Response to Joseph Kony
Armed with the power of social media, some young North American activists set out this week to take on one of the most violent rebels in the Grea...
I Apologize for Inaccurate Statistics on US Gov't War Spending
I APOLOGIZE FOR INACCURATELY QUOTING HOW MUCH THE US GOVERNMENT SPENDS ON WAR. For several years, I have been using a statistic that is grossly under...
What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change
Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous,...
Two Years Later: A Prayer for Haiti
Loving God,
We come to you, first, in silence. We mourn those who died two years ago in the earthquake. And we mourn with those who continue to mo...