Angie O’Gorman wowing audiences

From Brisbane to Ballina, Lismore to Byron Bay,  lecturer, author and practitioner of active nonviolence, Angie O’Gorman is wowing audiences where ever she goes.  Sharing ancient mythology creation story and modern understandings of scriptural text have people  excitedly seeking and deepening their own jouney into the sprituality of nonviolence. One of many highlights for a [...]

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Talisman Sabre 2009

As many as 30,000 US and Australian defence force personal are currently ‘playing war games’ in our backyard and they are under the command of the US military. They are practising games of mass destruction on land, sea and air. Their future targets will be in Afghanistan and Pakistan and probably any where else that [...]

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killing for Jesus is like shagging for celibacy

Jesus killed Mohammed?!?!
May 15th, 2009 – by Jarrod McKenna
Jeff Sharlet’s brave work (one recent article titled “Jesus Killed Mohammed”) exposes the rise of right wing fundamentalism at the heart of the US military. My latest article on God’s Politics is about how a generation are waking up to the fact that killing for Jesus is [...]

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Angie O’Gorman to tour Australia

Angie O’Gorman, noted advocate of nonviolence and theologian from the United States, will be visiting Australia later this year. She will visiting Brisbane (28 – 29 July), Ballina (NSW) (31 July – 4 August), Adelaide (6 – 10 August) and Melbourne (12 – 15 August).
Click here for more details.

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UN International Day of Peace

Yesterday was the International Day of Peace and I was out like many others trying to create a more peace filled world.  I wonder to my self at times if any thing I do makes any difference. But participation in events to celebrate this day are growing. Last night I was heartened to recieve an email that reported the [...]

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Pilgrimage to USA

I have recently returned from my months’pilgimage’ to the US, to places that i consider Holy Places. My first ten days were spent at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker House. LACW has been present in East LA for 30yrs serving the most disadvantaged of God’s sons and daughters on Skid Row in downtown LA. The soup [...]

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Arms Expo Cancelled!

Fantastic news – the arms expo to be held in Adelaide this November has just been cancelled!
News report here (note: the paper was a strong supporter of the arms expo).
OzPeace (key organisers of the planned nonviolent protests) press release here.
And a wonderful analysis provided by one protestor:
Us violent feral low life people armed with our [...]

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Nonviolent direct action shuts down coal port

Last weekend Jarrod and I were both able to attend the Climate Action Camp in Newcastle, the highlight of which was shutting down the railway feeding the world’s largest coal port for a few hours (unconfirmed: over 24 hours as the police were [...]

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Solomon Islands Journal

PACE e BENE AUSTRALIA
From Violence to Wholeness
FACILITATOR CO-LEARNING PROGRAM
In partnership with Catholic Church Solomon Islands and Caritas

Solomon lands
April 7–27, 2008

 
Daily Journal of Brendan and Carole…(the bits that are fit for public exposure!)
 

Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27621581@N07/sets/72157605585495606/

Day 1 Saturday April 6
Brendan arrived in Brisbane on the ‘red-eye’ at 7am on Saturday morning April 5th, about an hour [...]

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An Open Invitation to Christians to take Climate Action

Dear friends,
Climate change has become possibly the defining moral issue of our time. One of the biggest problems we face is that Australia is addicted to coal. Coal exports are Australia’s biggest contribution to climate change. The greenhouse pollution from our coal exports exceeds all of our domestic pollution combined – and is set to [...]

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