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Debate about White Poppies - Sky News - 9th November 2006
BodyEkklesia's director Jonathan Bartley find common ground with the British Legion over white poppies on Sky News.Link TextWatch the interview hereLink...
View ArticlePalestinian bishop urges non-violence to tackle injustice
Middle East Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan has urged Palestinians to "use brains, sanity, dialogue and non-violence and not arms to deal with differences".Middle East Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan has...
View ArticleManchester Cathedral mounts its charger
What is really at stake in the row between Sony and Manchester Cathedral over a violent video game? Simon Barrow looks at it in terms of Christendom, 'redemptive violence', image as commodity and the...
View ArticleBreeding natural born killers?
James Bond may be fantasy, but according to an army expert our media replicate many of the psychological techniques used by the military to overcome our resistance to killing, says Giles Fraser. No...
View ArticleHow turning the other cheek defies oppression
Many who have committed their lives to working for change and justice in the world simply dismiss Jesus' teachings about nonviolence as impractical idealism, says Walter Wink. This is because they have...
View ArticleNazis massacred: Tarantino's revenge fantasy
Like some scriptural stories, Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film 'Inglourious Basterds' is an extravagant revenge fantasy-cum-joke. But who's laughing, asks Mark Bilby, why and to what affect?The...
View ArticleThe electoral myth of redemptive violence
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View ArticleChallenging the culture of violence
The scent of violence in everyday life, in culture and in the news has become endemic in the Philippines, says Shay Cullen. But there is hope where different values and practices are initiated, and...
View ArticleThe religious betrayal of God and its antidote
Good Friday and Easter Sunday we have some comprehension of (or so we think). But what on earth is Holy Thursday all about? Simon Barrow explores two actions in the story which embody, practically and...
View ArticleRejoice? Bin Laden and the cycle of violence
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View ArticleFacing the Myth of Redemptive Violence
The belief that violence “saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last...
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