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Three Cups of Truth

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Last week I watched the "60 Minutes" expose on Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea. It felt like a punch in the gut, even if it's of the too familiar heroes-come-crashing-down variety. It must have f...
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Hunger Fast: The Call for Justice

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“When I walked outside people, thinking I was a doctor, began handing me their dead children. Within minutes I watched 25 children die.” These were the opening words of Ambassador Tony Hall from within the...
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A Proposal for "Illegal Aliens"

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The Hebrew Scriptures clearly call for the children of Israel to make room for the alien. The Israelites are reminded that they, too, were once aliens in a strange and distant land. …Who loves the stranger...
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Staying Alive to do Justice

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I try to start each day by setting aside about twenty minutes for centering prayer.  I empty my mind of the hundred-and-one things that are apt to start spinning in my head the moment I wake up.  Then, focusin...
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Being an Oxymoron

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A few years back I was a guest on Steven Colbert’s popular television show, The Colbert Report. He introduced me as an Evangelical who is liberal on social issues. Then he added, “He’s a living oxymoron!” Sa...
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Whose Side Are You On?

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 This blog post was first published on rjonline.org Many thoughts run through my mind when I consider the work I have done over many years in the restorative justice field. I often say when I am speaking publi...