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  • 28 Sep 2011
    Bring troops home from Afghanistan, says Kirk minister

    A Kirk leader has repeated the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly call for the government to bring the troops home from Afghanistan.

  • 31 May 2011
    Church of Scotland says Afghan War cannot be justified

    Leading representatives of the Church of Scotland have called for an end to the war in Afghanistan, and for UK troops to be called home soon.

  • 4 Apr 2011
    Intervention in Libya - a range of dilemmas

    Last week I recorded a radio interview with Vatican Radio's Susy Hodges focusing on issues around foreign military intervention in Libya: is it morally justified and what are its implications for the wider region? What is the end game and how is all this likely to impact on the often embattled Christian minorities in the Middle Eastern region?

  • 30 Mar 2011
    The Libyan conflict: observations and questions

    Without seeking to draw explicit conclusions about the current conflict in and over Libya, Harry Hagopian offers some observations and questions about what is going on, and proposes a cautious hopefulness about the 'Arab spring', even in the midst of winter.

  • 18 Nov 2010
    Sex and nonviolence

    "Sex and violence" is a hot-button phrase that if often used without thinking. But what do sex and violence really have to do with one another? Christians should be untangling the connection between them, but instead we seem to be contributing to the confusion.

  • 18 May 2010
    Sex, violence and sin

    Some Christians throw around the word "sin" fairly unthinkingly, while others have become rather embarrassed by it. To talk about "sin" clearly and justly, we need to address the confusion of both society and churches around two major issues - sex and violence.

  • 16 Dec 2009
    Peace, war, Nobel prizes and justice

    In his Nobel Peace Prize speech, President Obama deftly distanced himself and his office from pacifist traditions as a President with responsibilities consistent with empire must do, says Gene Stoltzfus. But the challenge of peacemaking goes deeper than political machinations.

  • 11 Dec 2009
    Protesters remind Peace Laureate that war is not justifiable

    Protesters turned out in force in New York and elsewhere yesterday to remind Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama that war is not justifiable, and to oppose his 30,000-strong troop surge in Afghanistan.

  • 11 Oct 2009
    Archbishop offers 'nuanced but powerful' criticism of the Iraq war

    The Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that those who decided for the Iraq war may have failed to consider its true implications in terms of justice and "long-term building and healing."

  • 16 Jan 2009
    Proportionality and 'just' violence in Gaza?

    The current Israeli military action is Gaza is being justified on grounds of 'proportionality'. Timothy Seidel looks at the injustice that lies behind the rhetoric.