Ploughshares legend, Ciaron OReilly, send this, well worth a watch:
“1968, 9 Catholic anti-war activists raided a draftboard in Catonsville, Maryland, USA destroying draft cards in nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War. Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip and six others were sentenced to prison. Christian Brother David Darst died before sentencing. Daniel [...]

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anti-war music

Christian, vegan, mental head, photographer, activist and all round top bloke Thomas Day flicked this to me well worth a look from System of a Down front man Serj Tankian.

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Gandhi and ’son of God’

Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi:

“Jesus expressed, as no other could, the spirit and the will of God. It is in this sense that I see him and recognise him as the Son of God.”
-Gandhi, (October 1941) from “Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings” by John Dear, p. 79
How does Gandhi’s understanding of ‘Son of God’ sit [...]

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chaser boys and the larrkin Jesus

Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi:

“Jesus was the most active resister know perhaps to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.”
-Gandhi -Vol.84, June 26, 1946
I too hold that Jesus is not less than, as Gandhi put it elsewhere, “the greatest practitioner of nonviolence in history.” And while we could whine and moan in long self righteous diatribes about the [...]

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Gandhi, Dave Andrews and a ‘bigger Jesus’

Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi:
“Because the life of Jesus has the significance and the transcendency to which I have alluded, I believe that he belongs not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world; to all races and people, it matters little under what flag, name or doctrine they may [...]

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‘Guilty!’ — John Dear

‘Guilty!’ — Of Trying to See Our Senator
Rev. John Dear
CommonDreams.org September 9, 2007
On Thursday, September 6th, 2007, six of us were found guilty in Federal court in Albuquerque, NM by a Federal judge for trying to visit the office of our senator. We will be sentenced in a few weeks. The message? It [...]

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Being Radical by Just Being

Jarrod’s post about Brian McLaren reminded me to post up a link to Shane Claiborne’s book The Irresistible Revolution. I’ve only read the excerpt from ch5 (3.1mb pdf) but wow! What great stuff.
A few powerful quotes:
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People [...]

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sincerity trumped by selling sex

“What does APEC stand for?” asked one agitated protestor to the scantily-clad young women.
Neither could give her an answer.
“I think that was actually the most ridiculous thing I have seen in my life,” said a 14-year-old protestor, who was attending the rally with her mother.
“Trying to sell sex when we’re trying to get [...]

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US Military Build-up in Guam – ABC Foreign Correspondent 9.30pm Sept 4th 2007

More about the current military build up going on in our region….not a good news story!  The way in which it is presented makes it all seem quite reasonable…very worrying.
see http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2007/s2019958.htm 
Foreign Correspondent is repeated on Saturdays at 1p.m. in NSW, Q’ld, & ACT. Through winter, Victoria, S.A., W.A. Tasmania & N.T. may broadcast local sport [...]

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local peace heros

Simon and Carol are not just good friends, they are good examples of what it is to be a Christian and to be human in the world today. If you haven’t checked out http://samuelhill5.blogspot.com/ , do now.

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