In the News: How to talk about what we need to talk about?
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Tag: war
Not Your Messiah
Peter Lucier reflects on Veterans’ priestly role in American civil religion. Continue Reading →
In the News: Migration, Occupation, Representation & more!
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Profiling, Prince, Peaceniks and more!
A round-up of recent religion news. Continue Reading →
The Last Twentieth-Century Book Club: Salem Kirban, Part 2
“The Last Twentieth Century Book Club” is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly . Continue Reading →
Burma: Faith and Resistance in Kachin
Photographer Ryan Roco investigates the role of religion in the lives of the Kachin people in northern Burma after decades of civil war. Continue Reading →
Divine Intervention: American Faith in Foreign Policy
Gale Kenny reviews Andrew Preston’s new book, “Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy,” a narrative history of foreign policy and piety in America. Continue Reading →
The Radical Notion that Women Experience War Too
Amy Levin: “[In] the new form of war that’s evolved since the end of the cold war where it isn’t two armies standing and facing each other, women and children really are the most effected by this type of warfare,” said actor Geena Davis in a behind the scenes looks at a new PBS series called “Women, War, and Peace.” Davis is a narrator for the five-part hour long series that began Oct. 11, along with other big time celebrities such as Matt Damon, Tildan Swinton, and Alfre Woodard. Continue Reading →
Saved and Sacked; Fruits and Roots
Taking a qeue from William James (and the bible), David Bromwich asks if it’s too late to examine the Obama-Bush presidency. How has the first black president, who promised to return America to “the high moral ground” and by race and rhetoric signaled an allegiance to equality and justice, proven to be the perfect ambassador of the last Bush’s policies? War. Torture. Financial titans. Bromwich lists those advisors and public servants Obama chose to keep or let go and draws conclusions about Obama’s moral compass from the record.
(h/t Marilyn Young for the frame) Continue Reading →
Preaching Against the Wars
The Proper 29 Project, created by Mennonite pastor Mark Villegas and named for Reign of Christ Sunday (November 21, also known as Proper 29), asks pastors to “address the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan” in their sermons. Writes Anna Groff at The Mennonite:
Villegas is pastor of Chapel Hill (N.C.) Mennonite Fellowship and a columnist for The Mennonite. He informed all the pastors he knows about the project–many of which are Mennonite. As of Nov. 4, several Mennonite pastors told him they would participate.
Some of the non-Mennonite pastors told him they would receive negative response if they preached about this issue.
“It’s hard here in North Carolina,” said Villegas on Nov. 4. “Our economy is tied to the military-industrial complex. Preaching about the suffering cause by U.S. forces in Iraq hits too close to home in a state that has such a high military population.”