Tag: violence

• Americans, we have a choice.

  

  This is not a drill. Some of my thoughts on ‘the enemy within’ and the choice America faces.

  Jennie

  November 1, 2024

  Jennie’s Posts, Jesus’ Way, Militarism, Nonviolence, USA

  Christian, election, enemy within, Harris, Imago Dei, love, Military, Nonviolence, prayer, Scapegoat, Trump, United States, violence

• Jesus’ Response to Violence

  

  Jesus’ encounter with Judas and his healing of the Jewish High Priest’s servant at his arrest offer a life-giving alternative to the warring factions in the Middle East, Christian supporters of the State of Israel now, and partisan hatred as the US moves towards its presidential election. Cross-post from Bob Ekblad.

  Jennie

  October 31, 2024

  Bob Ekblad, Cross-Posts, Israel-Palestine, Jesus’ Way, Nationalism, USA

  betrayal, bible, christianity, Harris, Israel, Jesus, judas, Trump, US Election, USA, violence, war

• Remembering two 9/11s and choosing which path we will follow

  

  Twenty three years ago, in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, Michael Nagler wrote the pamphlet, “Hope or Terror” to point out the strange coincidence that — almost a century earlier — on Sept. 11, 1906 Gandhi launched satyagraha, or active nonviolence, at the Empire Jewish Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa. These two Sept. 11…

  Jennie

  September 11, 2024

  Cross-Posts, Gandhi, Metta Center for Nonviolence, Nonviolence, USA

  9/11, 9/11 Memorial, Gandhi, Memorial, Metta Center for Nonviolence, Michael Nagler, New story, Nonviolence, Remembering, Satyagraha, September 11, Terrorism, violence