Focus On: Mapping Militarism 2020
by David Swanson May 6, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below represents a brilliant and multiplex presentation of the worldwide realities of the premier world blight of militarism. One could call it the Ultimate Virus, the Unremitting Pandemic–that few even recognize for the Monstrous World Nightmare it is. The other day I was forwarded an […]
Homo Homini Ubuntu
WN: “Homo Homini Ubuntu” – Man is Ubuntu To Man – is title of the talk given on the wonderful African concept of Ubuntu at our M2/W2 Fall Promotional Event, October 27, 2012. An excerpt: By contrast, to quote Tutu on Ubuntu: Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are […]
Kingdom Ethics
excerpt: The Pattern Continues Throughout The Sermon We have examined three of the teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and have seen that their basic pattern is threefold. They are not impossible ideals but transforming initiatives based on God’s grace. They are the way of deliverance from the vicious cycles in which we get […]
Why I Oppose the Death Penalty
WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the Southern Baptist Convention. The dialogue was organized by the Presbyterian Church in Alaska because debate was heating up in a state with no death penalty on the books. (Since the death penalty’s abolition in 1957, […]