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CPWI Report at Adventist Activism

See Jeff Boyd's excellent report on the recent Christian Peace Witness for Iraq worship and witness in Washington, at Adventist Activism.

Adventist Activism is a relatively new effort by Adventists "collectively committed to continuing the work Jesus started while walking this earth — spreading the good news of the Kingdom by serving, healing and teaching (1 Corinthians 12:27; Mark 10:45; Mark 3:10; Acts 1:3)."  The web site offers "a collection of our stories and thoughts regarding this work of spiritually motivated social action."

Below, a clip from Tony Campolo's powerful speech.  More at the CPWI site.

The Two Futures Project

The Two Futures Project (2FP) is a movement of  American Christians for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. We believe that we face two futures and one choice: a world without nuclear weapons or a world ruined by them. We support the multilateral, global, irreversible, and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, as a biblically-grounded mandate and as a contemporary security imperative.

Our change strategy is based around the creation of a nonpartisan, conscience-driven, enduring majority of Americans who are committed to a nuclear weapons-free world. By joining together with one voice of Christian conscience, we seek to encourage and enable our national leaders to make the complete elimination of nuclear weapons the organizing principle of American nuclear weapons policy. We join in this work to the glory of God.

We are a movement made up of followers of Jesus Christ, from all denominations and traditions, united by the Holy Spirit in our intention to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, as a standard of witness and work in God’s world.

The Taliban's Best Recruiting Weapon

From: Chris Hedges, "Becoming What We Seek to Destroy," Truthdig, 10 May 2009

 

The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. We are not delivering democracy or liberation or development....

 

We are delivering massive, sophisticated forms of industrial slaughter. And because we have employed the blunt and horrible instrument of war in a land we know little about and are incapable of reading, we embody the barbarism we claim to be seeking to defeat. We are the best recruiting weapon the Taliban possesses. We have enabled it to rise from the ashes seven years ago to openly control over half the country and carry out daylight attacks in the capital Kabul. And the war we wage is being exported like a virus to Pakistan in the form of drones that bomb Pakistani villages and increased clashes between the inept Pakistani military and a restive internal insurgency....  full column

Religion and Torture: A Disturbing Picture

The results of a recent survey on The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life:

Desmond Tutu's Message to Christian Peace Witness for Iraq

Dear Friends,

Our God is looking at you and smiling and saying how they have vindicated Me, because God had been wondering what had got into God's head to create us sowing so much mayhem in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Gaza, and Iraq. Oh dear why did I create that lot?

God says "Thank you" for confessing that the war in Iraq should never have happened.

You are conduits for God's grace and compassion to flow into a world that is hurting, to heal it. You are each an oasis of love, compassion, goodness, laughter, and forgiveness.

Hold up God's world so that it may be doused with the waters that heal from these oases.
God bless you all. God bless America. God bless all of God's world. Amen

Desmond Tutu

Pray and Witness for Peace - Washington, D.C., April 29-30, 2009
Find out more and register at www.christianpeacewitness.org