Keep Standing Up for Health Care: It’s Personal
Someone else’s mom needs cancer medicine. Someone else’s dad has diabetes. Someone’s baby will die without health care.
BREAKING: Christians Unite In Direct Action to Oppose the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act’
Through a series of actions, clergy and moral activists will speak out — and risk arrest through civil disobedience — to demonstrate moral dissent over the health bill under consideration in the Senate.
The Holy Tradition of Going to Jail for Jesus
There are a lot of ways to change the world. Going to jail isn’t the only way to do it. But it is one way.
Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action
It’s time for those of us who are called to proclaim and embody God’s Word to put on our clerical robes, take up our holy books, and speak truth in the public square.
When and How I Changed My Mind About Civil Disobedience
BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- It was in the early ‘60s, and the civil rights movement, along with the Vietnam War were headline news items...
Why Do It, Nelson Mandela?
BY: JAMIE ARPIN-RICCI -- Nelson Mandela was released from prison a few days before my thirteenth birthday. I remember the event only...
Civil Disobedience as Prayer
BY: JIM DOUGLASS -- In a nation which has legalized preparation for the destruction of all life on earth, going to jail for peace – through...
Civil Disobedience and Discipleship to Jesus
BY: JOHN DEAR -- To this day, the illegally risen Jesus remains at large, out and about, forming his underground movement of nonviolence...
Social Location at Wild Goose
At Wild Goose, I was humbled to be among justice-seeking Christians seeking to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
I see a deep connection between the personal practice of simple living and activism for social...
Can Civil Disobedience be Christian?
The time may be at hand when we will see an outbreak of civil disobedience being practiced by Christians on a scale that has not been witnessed for decades. Already there are signs that there are those in the ...