Carter on the Gaza tragedy
2008-05-08 12:58:00 Ex-US President Jimmy Cater, now devoting his time to human rights and peace work, has condemned as a "crime" the treatment of people in Gaza. read more
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JustPeace60 declaration
2008-05-07 10:25:00 The 8 May is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel - something that has occasioned both great hope and great despair. read more
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The High Court, BAE and media massaging
2008-04-10 22:29:00 The success of arms trade campaigners in bringing the judicial review in which the High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office and UK government acted illegally in dropping a corruption investigation against BAE Systems, under pressure from the Saudis, is a major achievement read more
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The horror of Abu Naji
2008-03-14 11:45:00 A Christian lawyer who played a major role in exposing the killings in Abu Naji, northern Iraq, will speak at an inter-faith meeting in London tomorrow. read more
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Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions (UK)
2007-11-23 01:18:00 As the Annopolis peace conference looms and attention turns to the geopolitical process, grassroots initiatives to bring a justpeace in Israel-Palestine continue. read more
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Peace and war
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flickrbabes.com: Peace and war
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flickrbabes.com: Peace and war
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The Economist on religion
2007-11-02 12:29:00 The Economist has today (2 November 2007) published a special report which examines religion's place "in today's modern society" - the role it is likely to play in this century's politics and "how we should deal with it". But is it saying anything new? read more
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CPT UK walk to mark Afghan war anniversary
2007-10-05 21:02:00 Christian Peacemaker Teams UK, the London Catholic Worker, the Oxford Catholic Worker and Voices UK are organising a peace walk through London on Sunday 7 October 2007 to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. read more
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Stay in touch on Burma
2007-09-29 14:34:00 The situation is changing all the time. We are seeking to keep up with the breaking news - both headline, and behind-the-scenes. read more
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Helping to save Iraqi lives
2007-08-09 08:24:00 Irrespective of what we think of the presence of British troops in Iraq, he plight of those who have worked as translators and assistants is a matter of serious concern. read more
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Preparing to make peace possible
2007-07-30 21:05:00 The international Day of Prayer for Peace on 21 September is part of a growing movement in opposition to religiously-sanctioned violence. Or any kind of officially-sanctioned violence, really. read more
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Crusades? No problem...
2007-07-24 05:26:00 Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Daily Telegraph writer is less than impressed with the notion that there could be a Christian problem with religious violence per se, not just Muslim versions of it. read more
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How to change the agenda from violence to peacebuilding
2007-06-22 10:49:00 You are invited to a discussion on Making peace headline news with Ekklesia's Simon Barrow, on Tuesday 26 June 2007, at St Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG, starting at 6.30pm. Ends by 8pm. All welcome. Feel free to spread the news. read more
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Propositions on peace and war: a postscript
2006-10-10 13:48:07 by Kim Fabricius (a postscript to this discussion)What a good discussion: resolute statements, discerning replies, penetrating questions ? and all spoken with grace and heard with humility. A tribute to the ethos of Faith & Theology. Thank you, all; and thanks to Ben, who has asked me if I?d like to make any final comments. Yes, please!First ? to repeat ? the Christian pacifist argument turns on the nature of the triune God; and the normative criterion of the nature of the triune God is the Christ event: the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, the hinge of history, and his life and teaching, the paradigm for all human action. If there is violence in this God ? in this Jesus ? the case for pacifism falls. Of course there are plenty of OT references to a violent deity, and a few in the NT too, but unless the opponents of pacifism can demonstrate a violent streak in Jesus himself (the hermeneutical criterion of all scripture), their case is like espresso without caffeine ? it lacks ...
Karl Barth on peace and war
2006-10-08 13:39:02 ?The decisive contradiction of the kingdom of God against all concealed or blatant kingdoms of force is to be seen quite simply in the fact that it invalidates the whole friend-foe relationship between one human and another.... The disciples are told: ?Love your enemies!? (Matt. 5:44). This is the end of the whole friend-foe relationship, for when we love our enemy he ceases to be our enemy. It
More on peace and war
2006-10-08 07:36:02 As usual, Kim?s latest post is being discussed on lots of other blogs. Also, in response to Kim?s earlier post on hell, Dan has now come up with his own 10 propositions on hell.
Ten propositions on peace and war
2006-10-06 07:24:04 by Kim Fabricius 1. God is the God of peace. The Father, as the ?source of good? (fons bonorum), is the source of peace; the Son, of course, is the Prince of Peace; and the Spirit, as the ?bond of love? (vinculum caritatis) between the Father and the Son, is the Spirit of peace. To re-phrase 1 John 1:5: God is non-violent, and in him there is no violence at all. 2. Is this a tendentious use of scripture? Not at all. Christian theology is Trinitarian precisely because it is Christocentric ? and it is incontestable that ?God is Christ-like, and in him there is no un-Christ-likeness at all? (John V. Taylor). Jesus preached and practiced non-violence ? no ifs, ands, or buts. And Jesus is the imago Dei. 3. And the ?awkward? New Testament texts? The ?sword? in Matthew 10:34 is clearly a metaphor for the conflict that the mission of Jesus provoked; while the ?sword? in Luke 22:36 is ?grimly ironical? (I. H. Marshall). As for the Cleansing of the Temple, it is hardly a political ... |
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