Look at the Picture
Last week amid the closing of the Olympics, the national debt, and the latest pop culture ‘news,’ this photo was published that encapsulates the volume of pain and suffering that is happening in Syria....
View ArticleProtest and Praise
Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life. University of Illinois Press.A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov. University of California Press.read more
View ArticleSarah Palin and the Beauty of Baptism
Oh, Sarah Palin.So you’ve most likely heard Sarah Palin used baptism as a metaphor for waterboarding terrorists. (I mean I heard and I’m in Australia!) I found out when fellow neo-Anabaptist Tyler...
View ArticleThe Expectation Deficit
The civil right of equal opportunity never ensured the human right of equal access.read more
View ArticleThe Questions We Don't Ask On Memorial Day
May 27, 2014 Related Author: Jim Wallis Press Source: Time Magazine Source Link: http://time.com/119998/the-questions-we-dont-ask-on-memorial-day/ Monday was Memorial Day, full of family trips and...
View ArticleRemembering D-Day: Sacrifice, Gratitude, and Lessons Learned
On this 70th anniversary of D-Day, I thought of my father, who died several years ago. James Emerson Wallis, Sr. was commissioned in the Navy, graduated from college at the University of Michigan, and...
View ArticleIraq: Humility Is the Best Option
America is stunned by what is happening in Iraq right now, and happening so quickly. We may be facing the worst terrorist threat to international security so far — despite all we have done and...
View ArticleNo Short or Easy Struggle
Fifty years later, does the political will exist to win the "War on Poverty"?read more
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl and the Voice of War
During my recent visit to Gangjeong, on Jeju Island, South Korea, where a protest community has struggled for years to block construction of a U.S. military base, conversations over delicious meals in...
View ArticleHow to Respond to Online Religious Wars
The history of religious wars in human civilization is a tragic commentary on those who adhere to religious traditions. From the French Wars to the Crusades, much blood has been shed in the name of the...
View ArticleJobless Kabul and the Works of War
Last week, here in Kabul, the Afghan Peace Volunteers welcomed activist Carmen Trotta, from New York, who has lived in close community with impoverished people in his city for the past 25 years,...
View ArticleGround Operation
Through farming, veterans across the country tend to the soil—and the wounds of war.read more
View ArticleDispute Over Israel Funding Has Jewish Film Festival in London Looking for...
A London theater is refusing to host the UK Jewish Film Festival because it receives partial funding from the Israeli Embassy.The Tricycle Theatre has hosted the film festival for the last eight years...
View ArticleOn Iraq Pope Francis' Message of Peace Meets Realities of War
VATICAN CITY — As he dispatches a top aide to war-torn Iraq this week, Pope Francis made his most impassioned plea yet for the world to halt the “slaughter” of Christians and other religious minorities...
View ArticleThe Nature of Joy
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These...
View ArticleBorderfree
During a recent visit to Kabul’s Emergency Surgical Center for Victims of War, the staff shared with us their sense of what's happening around the country, derived from the reports of staff working at...
View ArticleWar Is Not the Answer
That was a bumper sticker Sojourners published at the outset of the Iraq war more than a decade ago. American church leaders had not only opposed the war but offered an alternative: "An Alternative to...
View ArticleHow Christians Reject Jesus: On Violence and ISIS
Here at Sojourners we have written a lot about nonviolence. We take seriously the words of Jesus that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. We believe that violence begets...
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