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A Prayer for the End of Violence in Palestine and Israel
As we wake again to news that war has broken out in Israel and Palestine, our hearts are heavy. We offer this prayer originally posted on July 21, 2014.
A Prayer for Children Being Used as Suicide Bombers
O Keeper of Justice in the Universe, we are troubled by the use of children as
suicide bombers by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Fact: Recently a 10-year-old sister of a Taliban commander was given…
A Prayer of Thanks for Landmine Removers
Force of Life, we give you thanks for those working to remove dangerous landmines in Cambodia and other countries, including APOPO's HeroRATS, African Giant Pouched rats who are trained to detect mi…
Armed Drones and Perpetual War
Carrie Johnson in npr.org sums up a report by the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that includes a number of former Pentagon and C.I.A. officials. It contends that the U.S. policy…
The Nun Who Broke Into the Nuclear Sanctum
On July 28, 2012 an 82-year-old nun and two companions breached extensive security set-ups at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee in order to nonviolently voice their protest against this…
God is Love
by Ateya Stepanovich for Kidspirit's Society and the Individual Issue.
It is a story as old as the world, or maybe even older. A battle from times we don’t even remember, a battle between gods …
"I" is for Imagination
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why?
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
— George Bernard Shaw
Often, the most intense forms of beauty ris…
A Prayer for All Those Affected by the Suicides of War Veterans
Companion of the Sorrowful, our hearts ache for all the young war veterans who have committed suicide; may they rest in peace. Be with their loved ones; may they experience the healing balm you offe…
The High Cost of Waging Peace
On June 28, 2012, peace activists Sister Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli broke into the Oak Ridge Y-2 nuclear weapons production facility in Tennessee to symbolically disarm these w…
Beautiful Weapons of War?
Do you remember the adulation given the American missile bombardment of Bagdad in 2003? Politicians and journalists alike were impressed with the U.S. military's ability to induce "shock and awe" wh…
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