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

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