So, Glenn Beck says: “Something that is beyond man is happening. America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country has wandered in darkness.” I don’t understand this. There’s very little content to this statement. Will we be scrapping our nuclear arsenal anytime soon? The content of the “turning back” is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gandhi’
What’s the Turning?
Posted: August 29, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi, Glenn Beck, God, Hitler, mass meetings, Nazis, Restoring Honor, satyagraha
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President Obama Rejects the Narrow, Dogmatic Views of the Jedi
Posted: February 28, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Episode III, Gandhi, Jedi, King, Nobel, nonviolence, Obama, Revenge of the Sith, Sith, Star Wars, war, war in Afghanistan
President Obama Disgraced Himself at Nobel Ceremony
Posted: December 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Sermon on the Mount
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Say no to escalation in Afghanistan by signing our CREDO petition at http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/saynotoescalation/. Join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter to show your opposition to the war. But make these your [...]
President Obama’s Lonely Walk to the Situation Room
Posted: October 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Cesar Chavez, christian realism, Christianity, COIN, counterinsurgency, Gandhi, Jesus, Lilly, Niebuhr, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, serenity prayer, Sermon on the Mount
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. “It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals.” –M.K. [...]
Happy International Day of Non-Violence!
Posted: October 2, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi, Jesus, nonviolence
From the UN press release: UN declares 2 October, Gandhi’s birthday, as International Day of Non-Violence 15 June 2007 – The United Nations General Assembly today decided to observe the International Day of Non-Violence each year on 2 October – the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who helped lead India to independence and inspired movements [...]
Scenes from Another September 11th
Posted: September 11, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi, Jesus, nonviolence, peace, September 11, war on terror
