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The Best Defense…

Rosalind Hughes
February 23, 2022
Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Race, Theology
What if we were to attack instead of retreat? What if, in place of despair or even a secure defense, we were to perpetrate an all-out offensive on the things that threaten to divide us: antisemitism, racism, domestic (what a word) violence, the prevalence, and ease of acquisition of guns, America’s preferred instrument of destruction?

This Book Will Be Banned

Jemar Tisby
January 31, 2022
Books, Family and Parenting, Politics, Practical Justice, Race
The manufactured hysteria about CRT and the 1619 Project puts any book that gives an honest accounting of racism at risk.

Finding Jesus in Rural America

Carolyn Campbell
January 27, 2022
Church Life, LGBTQ+, Practical Justice
We have to know God is here. Right here.

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

Shane Claiborne
January 10, 2022
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...

Unlearning the Gospel of Whiteness: A Tribute to the Arch, Tata Desmond Tutu

Nigel Branken
December 31, 2021
Global, Practical Justice, Theology
The gospel is only good news to the poor if it is good news for all those made vulnerable.

Finding Security as the World Is Upended: Reflections on Isaiah 26

Bob Ekblad
December 28, 2021
General, Practical Justice, Theology
They are willing to try trusting God without knowing exactly what this means. I want to too.

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).

It’s What Didn’t Happen that Matters: On the Trial of the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Mandy Thompson
December 17, 2021
Practical Justice, Race
And because of this, they trusted Dunikoski with a kind of trust that is often only extended to those closest to us—family—and called her Auntie to prove it.

Jesus is Waiting at Our Border

Will McCorkle
December 16, 2021
Global, Immigration & Refugees, Practical Justice
To reject the foreigners at our border is in many ways to reject the very face of Jesus.

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. 
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