I HATE WAR!! I wanted to say that up front in this post. If anything shows the potential […]
War
I don’t know why I have these times when so much flashes across my brain? The thoughts come […]
I have certainly had some fun visiting the rendezvous in the last few years. They are becoming my […]
The quotes below come from input from Irish high school students when asked about having religious studies in […]
First of all I want to hope everyone has a good day on this important national holiday. 240 years […]
I have been holding off on this post so as not to offend some people’s views of that holiday. […]
President Bush’s use of drones and elevated them to an extreme level. We are told that the innocent […]
I think I heard somewhere that the U.S. has more than a thousand military bases throughout the world […]
From the title it is hard to determine where this post is going. We can be wrong about […]
It’s an incantation repeated among Obama’s neocon critics: the Iraq surge worked; things were going swimmingly until we […]
a world that is boiling over in violence and cut-throat theocracy makes me nostalgic for the days it […]
For those of you who haven’t visited here much I will state up front that while I am […]
Spouting Off… Being Loud But Not Being Obnoxious One of the things I missed the most about my […]
This post is a continuation of my story about my father and his early years. I know there […]
“We were ready to do it” Russian President Vladimir Putin said he considered putting the country’s vast nuclear […]
If it were challenged by Russia, how important is Estonia’s sovereignty to you? Would you kill and die […]
Christians have a presumption against war as well as an obligation to help heal those who suffer its […]
Somebody is always telling us in the papers how to prevent war. There is only one way in […]
If we can just let other people alone and let them do their own fighting. When you get […]
It has been a while since I have visited this site (click on the picture to go there). […]
What would happen if we spent as much money on seeking peace as we did going to war? […]
I know many think of me as one of those starry eyed liberals who doesn’t have any sense […]
While Tertullian emphasized the negative aspects of the military to Christian discipleship, Origen pointed out the positive vision […]
“[War] won’t stop till there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there […]
We are three billion in the hole and will be three billion more next year, and not a […]
Here is a letter from my Quaker friends at AFSC that I thought you might be interested in. […]
But every one of us write our own history. If it sounds better the way we want […]
I saw a statistic somewhere that said that 68% of U.S. citizens are war weary. I am certainly one of them. Neither party seems to shy away from sending our kids and/or our dollars to fight in this or that conflict. After twelve years of constant war costing us thousands of our kids and $trillions I am war weary. Do we really need to be the policemen of the world even if it bankrupts us? Our war machine has cost us enough!
Tonight is, thank heavens, the last debate for this presidential season. It will be on foreign policy. I can tell you in advance what will happen. Each side will tear into the other saying their opponents foreign policy will assure the total destruction of the United States. There will be little of anything but put-down and counter-put-downs.
If I were running for president I would give you very clearly what I would proudly call RJ’s Doctrine:
I guess I am still fixated on the post from yesterday about how so many very sparsely populated […]
Source: Recent email from FCNL (Friends Conference on National Legislation – Quaker) Do your members of Congress and candidates […]
Source: U.S. News – Historic battleship USS Iowa to become museum in Los Angeles. “There’s no more ships like […]
Here is a rather straight forward graph showing military spending by country. Are you like me and see […]
[War] won’t stop till there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there […]
Source: NYT: Risks of Afghan war shift to contractors – World news – The New York Times – […]
During my extensive three-year study of Christianity one of the things I learned was that during the early […]
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