Apologetics
Islam’s Deadly Truth
Herald Sun, Edition 1 – FIRST [Melbourne, Australia]. THU 28 MAR 2002, Page 019 By: Andrew Bolt Human rights groups say the West mustn’t be scared of Islam. But how can we ignore the terrible bloodshed caused by Muslim fanatics? HUMAN rights groups have been right to warn us not to overreact to the horrors […]
What’s Happening In U.S. Schools?
Henry Lamb Posted: April 30, 2002 Picture this: Your middle-school child is summoned to a special workshop. The kids are asked to form a circle. Your child is told to stand in the center, and is asked by a special guest from Planned Parenthood: “Does your church consider homosexual behavior to be a sin?” Ask […]
American Morality
Sightings 4/30/02 Out of Bounds — Martin E. Marty Only two months ago William A. Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights listed “The Ten Worst Anti-Catholic Atrocities of 2002” in America (February 18). Some examples certainly were atrocious, e.g. a Time Out New York listing of “The Best” happenings in the […]
Forgiveness Makes Future Possible
By WILLIAM BOLE When word came of jets crashing into the twin towers, I was at my desk at home drafting a report about forgiveness and international conflict resolution, a notion that would seem precarious even in less dangerous times. Oblivious to the scale of the catastrophe and the cascading irony of my theme, I […]
Nonviolence
In light of the 9-11 wars, people worldwide are digging more deeply into the study of applied nonviolence. Here are two new books to add to the curriculum. Dylan Mathews, coordinator of the Oxford Research Group’s conflict prevention initiative, spent the last year researching 50 case histories of conflicts or potential conflicts-primarily from the 1990s-that […]
Grieving As Sacred Space [Richard Rohr]
How these anxious and ambiguous days might offer up the most holy of gifts. by Richard Rohr, OFM “They sat there on the ground beside him for seven days and seven nights. To Job they never spoke a word, so sad a sight he made.” -Job 2:13 In recent studies of initiation rites, which seem […]
September 11 And Nonviolence
Hard Questions for Peacemakers Theologians of nonviolence wrestle with how to resist terrorism. by Jim Wallis This has been a very difficult time for Christian peacemakers, for those of us who believe that following Jesus leads us to the path of nonviolence. Despite the great challenges to that commitment since the terrorist attacks, I still […]
Persecution Of Christians
The Persecuted Body Christians around the world are being attacked and churches burned to the ground. Is anyone paying attention? by Ivy George My millennialist-minded mother was in the habit of sending me news clippings of world affairs to warn me to be alert and faithful in the last days. I have several clips on […]
Middle East 2001
Against Impossible Odds You wouldn’t know it from media reports, but there’s a hopeful movement being born in the Middle East-interfaith, rooted in nonviolence, and containing the seeds of a just peace. A visit to the Holy Land in turmoil. By Jim Wallis I arrived at the Tel Aviv airport and after clearing customs rode […]
Inside Israeli Apartheid
An interview with Palestinian Christian Jonathan Kuttab. By Jim Wallis Jonathan Kuttab, a leading human rights lawyer in Israel and Palestine, was born in West Jerusalem and raised there and in Bethlehem. After the Six Day War, Kuttab’s family moved to the United States, where he graduated from Messiah College and earned his law degree […]
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