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One More Gun Death Too Many — and Three Things You Can Do About It

[image error]At about midnight we heard the shots ring out. My friend ran to the door and I heard him yell, "Shane, a kid has been shot, come down." As we looked down the street we could see a young man staggering as…

One More Gun Death Too Many–and Three Things You Can Do About It

[image error]At about midnight we heard the shots ring out.   My friend ran to the door and I heard him yell, "Shane, a kid has been shot, come down."  As we looked down the street we could see a young man…

How I Came to Write an Apostolic Letter to Non-Christians in Esquire

[image error]As some of you know (though I know not many of you keep up with the latest men's magazines) — Esquire magazine's end of the year "Best and Brightest" edition named me one of the "Radicals and Rebels Who Are…

Beat the Defense Budget into a Plowshare

Almost exactly 4 years ago, more than 100 faith leaders from around the country went to jail together as we prayed for a moral budget and lamented the current one.  I think it may be time to do it again.

On Oct.…

Remember 9/11, Lament Violence, Invest in Peace

As we remember the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we join our voices with the psalmist in a cry of lament: "How long, O Lord, until Abel's blood stops crying, until justice rolls down like waters, until the…

40 Ways to Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4

It's wild how easily we get sidetracked from Holy days by holidays, and how quickly we can smother our central identity in Christ with other identities such as our national identity.  The Fourth of July is one of those holidays…

The Two Futures Project: Who Would Jesus Bomb?

In light of  headlines that dozens of kids and families were killed in US bombings of Afghanistan on Tuesday, this conversation seems as urgent as ever. God help us. It was a beautiful thing to join my friend and brotha Rob…

Why I Got Arrested on Good Friday

[image error]"Good" Friday was real good this year.  We remembered Jesus, and we remembered Jesus disguised in the "least of these" — those who continue to be tortured, spit on, slapped, insulted, misunderstood … those who ache, bleed, cry, love, forgive, and…

50 Ways to Love Your Neighbor

With the National Day of Prayer coming up (May 7), a lot of folks around the country are organizing prayer services in church sanctuaries and town halls. We're all for getting together to say prayers … but we're also challenged…

When Jesus and Justice Kiss

It seems that much of our conversation as a Church is in a perpetual cycle of reaction. We are tempted to exaggerate the neglected truth, and end up making incomplete disciples, either social justice disciples without Jesus or Jesus disciples…