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The Olympics, Human Rights, and Holy Mischief
“God Is Love,” inscribed on the tracksuit of the athlete who would become the second-fastest man alive, is what first caught the attention of Australian Olympic official Ray Weinberg in the early ’60s....
View Article10 Days to Make Love Practical
Have you ever felt moved to put it all on the line? Have you ever felt called to risk it all for the love we undergo when we open to God? The community that I was a part of founding where I have spent...
View ArticleOccupying God’s Vision of Jubilee
I’m so excited to see this US example of alternative economics: the Rolling Jubilee! It’s self described as “a bailout of the people by the people” in which the project buys debt for pennies on the...
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Do You Hear the People Sing? M.L. King & Les Misérables’ case for a Socialism...
If the latest Billboard album chart is anything to go by, the answer to Victor Hugo’s question “Do you hear the people sing”? is a resounding “Yes!” as the soundtrack to the latest film adaption of...
View ArticleLent Like God’s New World Is Underway: An Introduction
How might our contemplation during Lent be transformed if we kept these two often forgotten realities at the forefront: Resurrection = God’s new world is underway The Cross is how God’s kingdom comes...
View ArticleThis Lent Find Your Calling: NO to the Religious justifications of War & Ecocide
Irenaeus in the second century said: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” Have you ever felt fully alive? Like your life was on fire with the purpose you were born for? For Christians, the...
View ArticleJesus Wants to Invite You Into His Heart: Lent Week 3 PRAYER
It’s a beautiful thing when people “invite Jesus into their hearts”. Yet if this doesn’t lead to saying yes to Jesus’ invitation into God’s heart for the world, tragically it doesn’t lead to...
View ArticleWe Can Live the Love We See in Jesus – Lent Week 4 SERVICE
As we approach Easter this lent we think of our own participation in mobs that need victims to find their identity. We think about how Jesus takes the place of the victim and asks us to be with him,...
View Article“Gun Control… Woopty Doo?”
“Woopty Doo?” John Howard on Gun Control. from John Beohm on Vimeo. — Jarrod McKenna is amazed by grace. A peace award winning nonviolence trainer and activist, Jarrod is now World Vision Australia’s...
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Dr. Vincent Harding, MLK & The One’s We’ve Been Waiting For (with AUDIO)
Who are we building into? Who are we teaching what we’ve been taught? I ask this of us as I think of someone who last year had a profound effect me and generously built into my life. Last year I had...
View ArticleNo One Would Vote for Jesus
“Mixing religion and politics is like mixing ice cream and manure. It doesn’t do much to the manure but it sure does ruin the ice cream”, my friend Tony Campolo likes to say. Yet this election, like...
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The Comedian & the Christian: Narnia, Žižek, Zombies, Evolution & the Joke of...
This was fun. Cambridge Educated ex-lawyer turned Australia comedian, Alice Fraser has a successful little podcast called “Tea with Alice”. The ethnically Jewish, Buddhist raised, now agnostic Alice...
View ArticleA Crash Course: Australia, Refugees & the Politics of Jesus
Here’s a crash course for American friends to understand what’s happening in Australia with refugees, and the politics of Jesus. Imagine for a moment that in the lead up to the next U.S. elections, a...
View ArticleHoly Week is a Good Time to Get Arrested with Jesus
“If ever there was a peaceful protest, this was it.” These are not the words of an activist, nor a journalist but the Magistrate rumoured to not be easy on protestors. Today in court our charges and...
View ArticlePastors: Why we were arrested in the lead up to Easter
Today we were arrested in Julie Bishop’s office. We are Christian leaders who peacefully refused to leave without an answer to a vital question. The question is about little Roma. Roma is 11 years...
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The Beauty of Baptism & Sister Sarah Palin
Oh, Sarah Palin. So you’ve most likely heard Sarah Palin used baptism as a metaphor for waterboarding terrorists. (I mean I heard and I’m in Australia!) I found out when fellow neo-Anabaptist Tyler...
View ArticleEaster Made Me Do It! On Scapegoats, Asylum Seekers and Being Arrested
There are 1,138 children in offshore indefinite detention. We intend to stay and pray in Morrison’s office until we receive an answer as to when they will be released. I guess that’s a tweetable sized...
View ArticleBefore Getting Arrested… #LoveMakesAWay
Our #LoveMakesAWay nonviolent direct action movement has not only gone national, it’s gone viral. Over 20 Christian leaders have participated so far to dramatize this horrific reality that morally...
View ArticleThank you for your Kindness, Uncle Vincent
“It’s good people like him that makes us realise what’s possible and how we can go on.” Van Badham’s said to me an hour ago as we discussed Martin Luther King’s close friend, speech writer and...
View ArticleNuns, Paddy Wagons & The Dags Will Inherit The Earth
Article by: Father Chris Bedding, Peter Barney, and Jarrod McKenna On Monday a nun was arrested. That’s right, a nun. She was one of a crowd of Christian leaders who engaged in nonviolent sit-ins at...
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