Tag: War and peace

Bending the arc of history towards peace

As President Eisenhower publicly remarked, spending one more dollar on national defense than is essential hurts the nation, depriving it of the good that spending the money in another way would achieve. I, for one, find it impossible to believe that the U.S., to be secure, must spend more on national defense than the next twenty nations combined spend.

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Swords into Plowshares

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of nonviolence took new form today at a church in New York City.  Mike Martin, in a service at

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Bethlehem Wall in London

St. James’ Church in central London unveiled an eight-meter-high replica of the Israeli-built concrete wall that entirely surrounds the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. It is an effort to bring to London some of the reality of what it is like to live in Bethlehem in 2013.

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