From Soldier to Pacifist
BY: MATT YOUNG -- The key reason I have become a pacifist, or believer in non-violence, whatever technical term we want to call it, is this....
Nonviolence for White People
BY: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE -- The longer I live and pray the more convinced I am that white repentance–white conversion...
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 obscure Old Testament character they’d forgotten.
But I al...
Indicting Violence: A Pacifist Review of "The Hunger Games"
75 years after the end of the world, reluctant teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen brings it to an end yet again.
Welcome to The Hunger Games, a trilogy dripping with the weight of oppression and the dread of ...
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 Great Lakes Region of Africa–Joseph Kony. They’ve called their ...
The Occupation of the Lord’s Prayer
The occupation is like Jesus' parable, where a king invites all of his privileged, first-tier guests to the wedding. But nobody came. So the king takes the invitation out to the streets, inviting all who w...