The Anti-Manichaeist

The protest was well attended, with far more protestors in support for the dissolution of the legislative branch than those in support of the ruling coalition, despite some trickery and bribing by the ruling coalition.  There were plenty of troops separating the two groups and so there was no chance of violence, thank God.  Though, […]

Bono reflects on how Europe has been changed by the unprecedented generosity of the US to Europe after World War II and the willingness of the European nations to put aside their historical conflicts and help each other out when they really needed help. 
He rightly frames this as a source of hope for how things […]

Matt Jay outlines how recent political maneuverings by the ruling party in Ukraine go against the Constitution and how Ukraine President has ruled that this is not acceptable and appears to be ready to call for new elections.
I cannot stress how import it is for Ukraine to continue the reforms it began earlier.  The fear […]

Mon Ami en Christ, Mark Van Steenwyck has posted a magnus postus at the Jesus Manifesto.
After I watched “Children of Men” yesterday, I felt I understood better his view and wrote him an email apology for pushing him over it.  I find Christian Anarchism jarring, just like I found the very dystopic world portrayed in […]

Hilarious JibJab!
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Via Foreign Notes: There will be an Orange Revolution(OR)-like Mass Meeting in Ukraine this Saturday.
On Saturday 31st March Yuriy Lutsenko’s ‘People’s self-defence’ movement are staging a mass meeting at Independence Square - Maidan. Apart from Lutsenko, Yuliya Tymoshenko and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko from NSNU are to appear.
This may be the last chance for the remnants of the […]

The BushAdmin has been good for the Dems.  If I were a (Re)Pub(lican), I’d probably want to help encourage the Green Party.  I hope this coming election will be good for third parties, as I simply don’t trust the main two parties to center themselves on the dynamic political center without third parties snapping at their heels…
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This is the question that is now being asked in the US, as well as with Christian Ethics classes in Ukraine.

I wrote this out for my Ukrainian friends at Orange Ukraine. 
I have a book, “Gandi and Beyond” by David Cortright. It is a practical analysis of the lives/teachings of Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr and Cesar Chavez and others.
Here are some excerpts.

Kudos a MarcDavis at Branch in the Vine, I found out about Bono’s sermon given at the NAACP where he shares about how Martin Luther King Jr impacted him as an Irishman and how we can encounter God in identifying with the poorest of the poor and committing ourselves to be the generation that ends […]