In this video, police demonstrate a new “nonlethal” weapon that will blind people. Some Christian pacifists have worked to make the police “less violent” by advocating for less lethal weapons than firearms, such as tasers. In a recent editorial in The Mennonite, for example, Everett Thomas who is also a city council person in Goshen [...]

From July 28–31, 2010, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary will host an ecumenical conference entitled “Peace Among Peoples” on the morality of war sponsored by the National Council of Churches and other Christian groups. Among the invited speakers are Stanley Hauerwas, Brian McClaren and Mary Jo Leddy. Gerald Schlabach and Andy Alexis-Baker will present opposing sides [...]

John Howard Yoder’s newest posthumously published book, Nonviolence: A Brief History, is comprised of lectures that he gave in Warsaw Poland in 1983. At that time the Solidarity Movement had became a powerful nonviolent force trying to affect change in Communist Poland. Pope John Paul the II was to visit Poland just a month after Yoder delivered his lectures. So the time for Yoder to urge nonviolent resistance was ripe, though Yoder did not reference contemporary events in Poland during the lectures.

Many people say they stand during the national anthem as a sign of respect to those around them, even if they do not sing the words themselves. Indeed, some people do not think the anthem glorifies war. Instead they claim that it merely describes a battle scene in which the flag remains even though a [...]

A response to John D. Roth’s “A Moderate Proposal for Peace,” published in the Goshen College Record, Feb 16, 2010 This morning, I read one of the latest entries into the discussion on Goshen College’s decision to break with 114 years of Mennonite tradition and play the national anthem instrumentally at select sporting events. Written [...]

Many other people have written about how disappointed they are with Goshen College’s decision to play the national anthem. Here is a list of some commentary outside the jesus radicals site that we have found. UPDATE 7/14/2010 Exiles and Citizens, (July 4th) – 7/4/10 – Jeremiah 29:4-7, Daniel 3 — Sermon by Joel Miller at [...]

Jesus Radicals is strategizing a response to Goshen College’s decision to play the national anthem at a peace church institution. At this point, we are asking folks to “sign” our letter of resistance and will be prayerfully planning ways to deliver it during the season of Easter. Please click on the following link to take [...]

Goshen College president, Jim Brenneman, recently announced that the Mennonite college will begin to play the National Anthem at their sporting events. The move to overturn 114 years of resistance to the war song came in response to local pressure and press after 300 people — mostly non-Mennonites — contacted the school after hearing about [...]

Two interviews with Dorothy Day, one on the Christopher Closeup Show and one with Hubert Jesse, have recently been added to YouTube. In the interviews, Dorothy discusses the origins of the Catholic Worker movement, shares her theology on war and nonviolence, and talks about the Christian call to the works of mercy, among several other [...]

One of the most commonly held misconceptions about police in this nation is that if there are more police on the streets, there will be less crime. A new report from the New York Times, however, reveals that despite a 16% drop in the number of officers in the past decade, crime has not risen, [...]