Months ago we posted a link to the new recording of “from little things big things grow”. It’s been reported worldwide – as this blog post from God’s Politics shows: If you thought socially conscious music in the mainstream was a thing of the past, turn your ears to what Australia is listening to. A […]

For 20 years, forgiveness has been studied scientifically. This video considers the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness and documents its power in situations as diverse as Ground Zero, Amish country and individual murders…There are no simple answers offered, but the clear message of the film is that forgiveness benefits the forgiver and can bring […]

RS. (Bob) WHITE is Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. Wars have been waged so continuously through human history that they are regarded as unavoidable, but the increasing destructiveness to civilians and the environment makes pacifism an urgent and viable alternative. Professor White’s latest book, Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace, […]

Can we call Muslims and Buddhists who work for peace “children of God”? How can we not?

How can we call ourselves “children of God” if we do not work for peace?

This beautiful piece came from a facebook group. It is urging everyone take a stance for peace before the Olympic Games in Beijing.

You may know that Dave has recorded four albums over the last couple of years. Including the theme song for wecan.be. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] we can be (the song, by Dave Andrews and Peter Branjerdporn) You can listen to more of Dave’s songs (or download the words and music) here.

welcome home, my child
your home is a checkpoint now
your home is a border town

(andrew here, relieved after restoring the whole of wecan.be from a catastrophic failure) I printed this onto Tshirts for a party once, i wish i had made more. last month i uploaded the design to the Remo General Store. They’re desperate for new customers, so they’re giving away a free Tshirt to anyone who joins […]

I’ve read the be-attitudes passage many times, but it wasn’t until Andrew invited me to post material on wecan.be that I actually spent some decent time reading this 3-chapter section I thought I knew so well. What immediately caught my eye was the story-arc of the be-attitudes. Jesus goes throughout Galilee – teaching, preaching and […]

The apology of the the Australian Prime Minister to indigenous people set to music. Buy this song for less than $2 to get it in the charts and support the reconciliation movement. http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/MakeThisAHit&id=329

Sarah van Gelder interviews Pete Seeger on a life of music and the power of millions of small changes…Learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing. … If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2296&utm_source=mar08&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6_hdr

Now available to you are two new videos — DVDs to illustrate what it looks like when diverse people – young and old, even “enemies” Connect, Communicate, and Change. The principles are universal, beginning with a new quality of listening in homes, institutions, communities and nations. Because of the urgency on Earth these DVDs will […]

“Ordinary people forgive best if they go at it in bits and pieces, and for specific acts.” —Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve http://www.loveandforgive.org/letting_go.php