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The latest news on Iraq war-fifth anniversary, Iran, climate change, Iraq-poll of Iraqi opinion, Iraq aniversary-vigils, Immigration, Darfur, Episcopal Church, climate change, history, and select op-eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq war-fifth anniversary. Bush Implores Nation, Congress To Show ‘Courage and Resolve’ – “President Bush…

On Friday, I shared a preview of my speech for the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq. Here is the full text of my message at the National Cathedral, where I and other religious leaders spoke to a capacity crowd before processing to the White House. + Dowload audio of the speech (mp3) Four years ago…

With much hard work and prayer – and despite frigid temperatures with rain and sleet – the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq was a moving and inspiring event. More than 3,000 people gathered at the Washington National Cathedral and then walked in a candlelight procession nearly four miles to Lafayette Park across from the White…

Look for more coverage soon, but here’s a first look at Friday night’s Christian Peace Witness for Iraq in Washington, D.C., as marchers flooded 16th Street on their way to the White House: photo by Ryan Beiler

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton, from “Thomas Merton on Peace” + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. – Psalms 20:7-8 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Several thousand Christians from around the country will gather at the Washington National Cathedral this evening for a Christian Peace Witness for Iraq worship service, followed by a candlelight procession to the White House. This is an excerpt from the talk I will give this evening. We’ll have the full text and coverage of the…

Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. – Deuteronomy 15:10-10 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity. – Frederic D. Huntington, in Forum magazine, 1890+ Sign up to receive our quote of the day…
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