Terror: Two planes ending 300 lives in fiery collision. Mass graves filled with the bodies of the innocent. Terrorist: A man with a box cutter and a one way ticket in his pocket. A dictator waging war from an underground bunker. These are the definitions in the minds of my… Read More
My father was in Vietnam on two tours of duty with the First Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army, served for a while in Bremerhaven Germany and taught at Fort Sill near Lawton, Oklahoma when I was born. I would sneak into his closet as a boy and try on… Read More
I don’t use the word “pacifism” when speaking or singing across the country. I have to touch on what it means to be a peace maker since my last album was based on that idea and seven others that make up the beatitudes from Matthew 5:1-12. I used that word,… Read More
I’ve written about Stanley Hauerwas here before but thought it might be better to let him speak for himself a while. Hauerwas is a theologian teaching at Duke University these days, a former Notre Dame professor, a Texan, a brash and controversial ethicist, and author of numerous books covering everything… Read More
Members of Christian Peacemaker Teams are held hostage by Swords of Righteousness in Iraq today. According to The Christian Science Monitor: More than 100 days after the abduction of four of their peace activists in Iraq, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) says no contact has been made with the group holding… Read More
I saw new independent film End Of The Spear last night – the true story of a missionary’s journey into the dense Amazon basin of Ecuador in hopes of making contact with a violent tribe of pagan warriors. The images of vast rain forest and stone age tribal living are… Read More
Shaun Groves