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Johan Maurer revisits Thomas Kelly's "Eternal Now"

Kelly wants neither the escapism of other-worldly piety nor the obsession with here-and-now effectiveness of church-as-social-agency. It is the constant awareness (fading inevitably from foreground to background, and back again) of Divine Presence that gives us both endurance and perspective. As I contemplate how life is not a chess game where we have unlimited time to construct a perfect strategy, it's a great comfort to me to consider that my only real task at any given moment is to remain in that Presence.

Wess Daniels: Old Quaker Discipline on the Poor

While I was researching for a recent sermon I came across some great quotes on poverty from 18th Century Quakers. One thing I loved was that the section on plainness and living an unfettered life is right next to the section about caring for the poor. These two things, how we live and what we produce and consume, and interrelated to whether others have enough or not.

Following Jesus Danny on Internet Gossip

I often receive emails from friends, or see Facebook postings, which contain patently false information. The content has usually been copied & pasted or forwarded from elsewhere and is usually from a Conservative perspective. What particularly troubles me about these messages is that they almost always come from people who profess to be Christians. I've developed a standard reply to them, which is to point out the falsehood along with a reminder that Christians are supposed to be people of the Truth, not people of half-truths and Internet rumors.
 

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At 11:28am on September 15, 2009, Janice Sinclaire said…
Tom Jacobs has an intriguing new article exploring an idea that seems to lessen support for war...please feel free to link...

Does acting violently make us animals? A study finds that idea reduces right-wingers' support for war. http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/notion-of-violence-and-war-1469
At 1:18am on July 8, 2009, Vijay Shanker Jayanarayan said…
Any opportunity to spread the idea of NON VIOLENCE cannot be ignored. I am sure that a great many people in this world are fed up with the constant glorification of violence - whether it is war or art .... or sport ... or music ... or religion .... or even love!

With the Internet as a stupendous tool of interaction, I am sure more people would like to discuss a world without violence...

Martin Kelly ... you have done your bit!
At 11:51pm on August 13, 2008, Terri said…
Great site! Your attracting some really awesome people here. I'm enjoying it more than any of my other social networking sites.
Many Thanks!
At 1:07pm on May 29, 2008, Robert Mills said…
I am a technology consultant who provides IT and internet assistance to individuals, groups and small businesses. My priority is to provide these services to those who are poor and feel dis-empowered by not having a presence on the the web, or who have the presence but do not feel it is effective.

Additionally I will be sharing information about what I call human technology which encompasses political, social, cultural and economic matters of interest, especially as to how these areas may impact our lives, with a focus on human rights, peace and non-violence. As a Spiritual Humanist Minister, I provide progressive spiritual counseling, non-violence education, and services such as weddings, love covenants, passages (coming of age, funerals, bereavement counseling). Please visit the Logos Institute of Spiritual Humanism, if you would like to have more information.
www.cyberbspace.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/logos_institute/
At 5:18pm on February 26, 2008, Howard Clark said…
I went to nonviolence.org and found out about this.

Sorry you never got the recognition you deserved for nonviolence.org

Howard
At 7:18am on February 1, 2008, Christian Bartolf said…
thank you for creating this, websites I administer:
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi
http://www.themanifesto.info
http://www.bartolf.info
good luck for you and us,
christian

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I'm a Quaker and peace activist, founder of Nonviolence.org in 1995. I've worked for extended times with New Society Publishers, a pacifist/eco book publishing house and Friends General Conference, the main liberal Friends group in the U.S. Other work has included board work with War Resisters League and the New Society Educational Foundation and part-time work with groups like the World Game Institute and Friends Journal. I'm currently a freelance web designer and social media consultant: my tech site can be found at MartinKelley.com and my blog at QuakerRanter.org.
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First Hope, Now It's Time to Get to Work

It was beyond crazy beautiful to see legendary musician Pete Seeger up on stage the day at the pre-inauguration celebration, leading tens of thousands in Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" along with a Senator with a rendezvous with history.

I've been lucky enough to see Pete so many times, even right there on the Mall on Washington, but almost always he's been there in protest. Yesterday he was there at the invitation of in the incoming President of the United States.

It's too easy to m… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2009 at 12:42pm — 3 Comments

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The long life of 1950s sci-fi paranoia

Part of the playbook for American torture in Iraq and Guantánamo comes from Chinese interrogation methods used against captured Americans during the Cold War.

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. The recycled chaContinue

Posted on July 2, 2008 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

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Cost of War video




I thought I'd inaugurate the blog part of this new Nonviolence site with a Youtube video on the "Cost of War" from the American Friends Service Committee that's become quite popular.


From the video: "The Iraq war has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of
Iraqis and thousands of U.S. military personnel. It is also costing
$720 Million dollars each day - dollars that could be spent in much
more constructive ways. It is time to DEFUND the war and RE-FUN
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