by Sean Reilly | Nov 15, 2014
The belief that violence “saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. If a god is what you turn...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
During Christianity’s early years, as the church moved from being a series of transitional movements to a collection of settled institutions, a blurring occurred in the distinction between Pax Christi, the kind of peace made possible by Jesus the Son of God, and Pax...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 14, 2008
Women of faith have a special calling to restore religion’s principles of nonviolence in a conflicted world, Sister Joan Chittister has told more than 2,000 women at a gathering in the USA. The remarks came in a keynote address to the seventh triennial Gathering of...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 11, 2008
Campaigners say that the US Senate has administered the ‘last rites’ to the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). The Senate Appropriations Committee passed an annual spending bill yesterday that rejected all funding for the new weapon. The Senate’s...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 3, 2008
Nonviolence doesn’t always seem to work – but neither does military might. That was Professor Norman Kember’s response to questions at the annual Global Student Forum (GSF) for sixth formers held at the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, attended by a...
