Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
By Greg Rollins. Greg is a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, an organization that asks, "What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war?" I recently talked to a foreigner...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
The colourful condemnation by Western leaders of acts of terror is obviously fully deserved. As far as it goes… On July 7, 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On September 1,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
By Greg Rollins. Greg is a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, an organization that asks, "What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war?" The Other Iraq was the one that...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30). The second greatest commandment, He said, is to love your neighbor as yourself (Mark...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
I was married recently and, among other things, it afforded me the chance to get out of the suburbs and into the heart of the city I love: Vancouver. However, it is a move that has also left me head-fogged and heart-twisted. For while I am encircled by the beauty of...
Jun 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
As I would walk in Vancouver’s downtown eastside, occasionally I would get a sense that I was walking through the valley of the shadow of death. There was the crying of sirens, which would spike right after welfare cheques came. The cries hear throughout the streets...
