May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace May God bless you with tears to shed for […]

Lord Jesus, you said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Keep us from being preoccupied with money and worldly goods, and with trying to increase them at the expense of justice. Lord Jesus, you said, “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” Help us not […]

Great new video from Bread for the World on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4YzpZJrcEg

by Michael Franti http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKVYHE98lKY

by Michael Franti http://youtube.com/watch?v=ICL-4Onk0PA

Walk out, get free stuff, toss a flower bomb. Simple steps for day-to-day liberation. Go ahead: free your world.”To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.” Howard Zinn, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2106 http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2106&utm_source=dec07&utm_medium=

As well as preparing worship resources for World Aids Day the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance has this year put together an excellent Advent calendar of daily readings, pictures and meditations. Many of the meditations are written by people living with AIDS. http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6404

http://www.simpleliving.org/indexoth.php?place=archives/MR/10tips.php

Dear Jesus, I guess you’ve been deluged with birthday prayers. If you’ve had time to open them all you’ve got to be worried. I am, hence the email. There was some talk of a return visit last time you were here. Got to tell you, now would be good. Now would be excellent. So I […]

‘Axis of Evil’ Lullabies Listening to women from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Cuba and North Korea crooning to their little ones raises up the tender, necessary anger and courage to work against the evil of war. And I have to wonder – if all our children fell to peaceful sleep listening to lullabies from […]

Send Nonviolence Postcards to friends and family! http://paceebene.org/postcards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDmMBIyfsU&mode=related&search