[This week, I'm traveling through Scotland and England on a national speaking tour about Jesus and peacemaking. Here is a little journal account of the first half of my journey.…
This year my summer reading included Carolyn Maull McKinstry’s memoir, While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement (Tyndale, 2011, 301 pp.,…
Last month’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, was another wake up call for our gun crazy, violent nation. We grieve for the dead and wounded, and join with others…
The future of war was on display last week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. There the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) showed and…
A hundred and fifty of us gathered on Sunday night, August 5th, at Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, New Mexico, at the exact spot where long ago the Hiroshima Bomb…
[Ed.’s Note: This meditation is the last of a five part summer series on the peace writings in the psalms.] Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human…
[Ed.’s Note: This meditation is the fourth of a five part summer series on the peace writings in the psalms.] I will listen for the word of the God of…
As we grieve for the dead and injured in last week’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and join with others to demand handgun reform, we are reminded once again…
[Ed.’s Note: This meditation is the third of a five part summer series on the peace writings in the psalms.] Come, children, listen to me. I will teach you awe…
“A king is not saved by a mighty army, nor a warrior delivered by great strength. Useless is the war horse for safety; its great strength, no sure escape. But…