Iraqi suspects await trial, but the Christian Peacemaker Teams say they oppose harsh punishments.Three pacifists who were held hostage for 118 days in Iraq and were released only after a fourth colleague was murdered, publicly forgave their captors Friday. At a press conference in London, the members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) said they […]

   By Will Braun, Editor, Geez magazine www.geezmagazine.org  On the phone, in between his duties at Schofield Army Barracks in Hawaii, Sergeant Logan Laituri tells me he wants to “live radically for Christ.” Normally I stumble over that sort of fervor – couched, as it is, in terms I would usually consider vague and cliche […]

By Adrian Glamorgan A few young people inspired by the work of Martin Luther King Jnr, Dorothy Day, the historic Peace churches and ultimately Rabbi Yeshua, the Nazarene, have established a spiritual community, “The Peace Tree,” in one of the more demoralised suburbs in Perth. This idealistic, practical, intentional community’s connections with Christianity are unapologetic, […]

For those of you who remember a while ago i wrote about an everyday interaction i had with a man at cartridge world when i went to get my ink refilled.  We just had a really good conversation about life and what’s possible and this was because i intentionally create space and time in my […]

Ragan Sutterfield | posted 11/15/2006 08:35AM Wendell Berry defies easy description. His book jackets call him everything from social critic to farmer to conservationist, and he is all of these, though they do not contain him. He is a writer—poet, essayist, and novelist. Everyone from The Progressive to National Review has claimed him. Eugene Peterson […]

By Kristin Jack Why devote this issue to the theme of non-violence? Why is this important, or even relevant, for an evangelical mission working among the poor? Three key reasons:  1. Because Jesus had a lot to say on the issue – and hasn’t often been heard.  2. Because this is a crucial issue in […]

By Tracey Makamae17th October, 2006. My daughter’s 23rd Birthday- it’s 1:40 am and I’m sitting in the departure lounge at Darwin Airport terminal, wide awake after a double-shot latte.. Four other activists and I face Alice Springs court this morning in a non-violent peace protest at the gates of Pine Gap facility last week. During […]

Over the past few months i have been starting to feel like i am not the person for the job i have been doing……………..i get way too frustrated at the politics and the systems and feel like i just can’t compromise my framework any longer……….for example…………..working out of a risk management (fear based) framework…………instead of […]

A Lesson in forgiveness in the face of snarling hate Don Rowe is a special bloke. As the NSW president of the RSL, it was he who accepted the apology of that 17-year-old Lebanese-Australian boy who stole the Australian flag from the Brighton-le-Sands RSL Club during the Cronulla riots, and he who extended the olive […]

The Amish response to the brutal slaying of five of their own offspring in an old fashioned, one-roomed school house was a blueprint for how President George Walker Bush should have responded to the slaughter of nearly 3,000 of our own citizens in the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The merciful decision to forgive a […]

The family of the gunman who killed five Amish girls in a Bart Township schoolhouse today released a statement thanking the Amish community for their “forgiveness, grace and mercy.”… “Our family wants each of you to know that we are overwhelmed by the forgiveness, grace and mercy that you’ve extended to us,” reads the statement, […]

  Amish response to schoolhouse shootings teaches us all a lesson in faith and healing…We’ve all tried to imagine how it must feel. How would we have responded if it were our daughters, our nieces, our granddaughters who’d been shot, execution style, in the brutal shooting at the West Nickel Mines School in Bart Township […]