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A Here-and-Not-Yet Gospel of Peace

Anna Kelly
December 20, 2021
Books, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
Too often, we have numbed the aches and groans of the world in a false peace that seeks to resolve and explain away our neighbor’s pain (or worse yet, to blame them for it).

The New War on Christmas

Shane Claiborne
December 14, 2021
Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
This week also marks the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting (December 14), one of those all-too-familiar moments when our country said, “Never again”… and then let it happen again and again. 

Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?

Shane Claiborne
December 14, 2021
Death Penalty, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being...

Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.

Shane Claiborne
November 23, 2021
Death Penalty, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
The irony cannot be missed. Christians all over the world were praying that a Christian governor would not execute a fellow Christian brother who is almost assuredly innocent.

The Mark of Cain: On Who Deserves to Live

Morf Morford
November 10, 2021
Global, Peace & Nonviolence, Theology
Killing in the name of God should be the ultimate oxymoron – the most extreme self-canceling, obvious-to-all contradiction.

American Altar: Poetry, Gun Violence, and the Gods to Whom We Sacrifice

Michael Stalcup
September 24, 2021
Art, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice
We Americans are much slower to see the idols of our own times and cultures.

The Wrong Debate: On Alabama’s New Gas Chamber

Chris Brown
September 14, 2021
Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice
As states grapple with how to resume killing, the only debate seems to be over the method.

The Amnesia of ‘Never Forget’

Bjorn Philip Beer
September 9, 2021
Global, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics
Abroad, “never forget” hides a slow forgetting of the universal morality to which we once aspired as a country.

Faith Leaders Gather in Houston in Response to Gun Violence

Kathryn Post
September 8, 2021
General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics
The Red Letter Christians’ gathering went on despite the cancellation of the NRA event.

For Afghanistan, Hospitality is the Least We Should Do

Bill Mefford
August 25, 2021
Global, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics
This knowledge should lead us to lament the terrible damage we have caused, and this should then shape how we move forward.
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