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This post originally appeared on Medium. I hope you find it as inspiring as others seem to have in that community. https://medium.com/@jroberteagan/a-love-story-49dc195d6646
This post originally appeared on Medium.com There’s nothing radical about violence. Violence is pedestrian. Violence is weakness. Violence is the way things have always been. In the beginning… The Hebrew Scriptures tell us a story of how violence came into being. Two brothers, Cain and Abel, got into a fight over religiously motivated jealousy. Apparently,… Continue reading Reclaiming Radical
This post originally appeared on Extranewsfeed.com On Saturday, June 10, an anti-Muslim, non-profit organization called Act for America is encouraging people in various places throughout the United States to participate in a “March Against Sharia”. Act for America would balk at being called anti-Muslim. They claim they are working to confront terrorism, empowering women and… Continue reading Peacemaking as Counter-Protest
Follow this link to read this (potentially final) story in ‘The Way Series’ on Medium.com
We were all sitting around talking about what has happened and what we have come to know over the course of the past year. There is something deeply important about this practice – if we don’t remember together we don’t learn and we don’t grow. Much of the time we are just wasting time, in… Continue reading I Would Go to Hell
I celebrated the 35th anniversary of the day of my birth yesterday. If by ‘celebrated’ I mean I drove an hour to a church in Lakewood to teach a class, met a refugee from Congo at a random McDonalds (on purpose), and drove home; at which point my wife left to go to a baby… Continue reading A Bizzaro Birthday: Ageism & A Congolese Refugee
