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The fresh hell of new war
Many want to paint war as virtuous, distorting the mercy of God as weak. These would steal your soul and have you thank them.
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War Is a No-Win Situation
The popular phrase “war is hell” is close. But unlike hell, we think we can win it. Do it. And be called heroes for killing many, many people.
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The Collapsing Boundaries of War
War messes with our moral compass. But it is the sense of inevitability that does far more damage. Our work is to enforce those boundaries.
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Not the Mountain
The story of our failure reveals the opportunity for connection: that the point is not to seek the mountain, but each other.
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Love – Rebellion and the Valentine
We associate it with candy and flowers. The side of Valentine’s Day we rarely see is the side in which its true power resides.
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Hawks and Doves
The keen hawk is too flattering an image for those who perpetually push for war. We need something far more short-sighted.
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I shouldn’t have to remind you that Jesus doesn’t support nuclear war.
What’s with some Christians suddenly endorsing nuclear war? The idea pisses me off. But it doesn’t surprise me. It seems like an inevitable, given our present state. Not that war is inevitable (though I fear it may be). But that some Christians are always making it harder on the rest of us. And at the…
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A Prayer for all of us on this, the true Mother’s Day
On June 2nd, 142 years ago, Julia Ward Howe worked to move all Mothers in support of peace, and bring an end to the viciousness and evil of war. She wrote: Arise, then, women of this day ! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears ! Say firmly :…