David Gushee on the Torture and the Detainee Task Force: Part II
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a series of two on David Gushee’s comments during the final event of our “Public Theology and the Sacredness of Human Life” series at All Saints Church on...
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Report Card on President Obama’s Just Peacemaking Policy
Now after the first four years of Obama foreign policies, is it time for a report card from the perspective of just peacemaking practices? He has opened himself to such a report card by endorsing all...
View ArticleRedeeming the Enemy: A Call to Civil Disobedience
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on the Institute of Middle East Studies blog (Redeeming the Enemy: A Call to Civil Disobedience) and is used here with permission. “To our most bitter...
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The Initiator Roundup: August 1, 2013
Today, I am making a modest attempt at what I hope will grow into a new weekly feature on the Just Peacemaking blog: a roundup of articles from around the web that have an angle on something in our...
View ArticleHow Bad Math Doomed Syria
The most significant turning point in the conflict in Syria was not the use of chemical weapons against civilians last month, but something that happened over two years ago. I refer to the point in...
View ArticleIf Gas is the Problem in Syria
“US Is Willing to Go Solo on Syria,” (LATimes Aug 30) says the U.S. government’s case for a punitive strike against Syria is having difficulty persuading allies due to the memory of false claims during...
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The Initiator Roundup: September 5, 2013
With all of the back-and-forth this week on the possibility of punitive strikes against Syria, I saw the just peacemaking paradigm put to use many times around the web – and invoked, even if not by...
View ArticleWestgate Mall, Just Peacemaking, and al-Shabaab
There is no way to explain a tragedy like the mass murder at Nairobi’s Westgate mall. Executing people in such a manner, for which the militant group al-Shabaab is claiming credit, is unspeakably evil....
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Knowing, Being, and Doing the Practices that Make for Peace
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared in Tableaux (Our Episcopate) and is used here with permission. In Luke 19 Jesus, triumphantly “saddled” on coats atop a beast of burden, looks down from the...
View ArticleThere to be Destroyed
Syria’s chemical weapons are on their way out to sea, there to be destroyed. Near the climax of his State of the Union Address on January 28th, president Obama said, “American diplomacy, backed by the...
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