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What have we become?
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries, including Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan. (Story here) We have returned to bloodlust. We have accepted…
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The call for the moral center to hold
David French writes in the hours following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania: Now is the time for America’s moral center to rise up and declare — with one voice, neither red nor blue — “Enough.” We either recover our sense of decency and basic respect for the humanity of our opponents, or we…
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Overcoming the DNA of violence
He shall judge between many peoples and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks;nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more; (Micah 4:3, NRSVue)
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Lone gunman? Hardly
Another mass shooting we “can’t do anything about.” Another racist motivation. But… another “lone gunman”? When are we going to wake up? A mass shooting in Jacksonville, FL over the weekend was again motivated by racial hatred. How do we know? The shooter left his manifestos before shooting up a Dollar General, killing three, and then turning the gun on…
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Heartbreak
Two stories I ran across that speak to heartache and grief I carry. One is about the deepening issue of Christian nationalism. I had called it culturalized Christianity years ago, and things are only worse.
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Violence gets attention
In the current Middle East conflict I am sent back to the Civil Rights Era and learning more about non-violent protests, MLK, Gandhi, and more.
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The demons we tolerate
Reading for today: Psalm 119:49-72; 49; 53 Gen. 37:25-36 1 Cor. 2:1-13 Mark 1:29-45 A key passage from yesterday and a passage from today stand out.
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Violence is our DNA
Reflections the day after another school shooting.
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The things we miss in our current political climate
“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. “
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