morepraxis

Action: Act to prevent further killings in the Philippines and bring the executers of such violence to justice.

How: Send the Government of the Philippines a sympathy card expressing your sadness of [...]

Refugee and Migrant Sunday is on August 27
The Parish/Adult and Schools Education kits contains education sheets, liturgical and parish resources to help raise awareness, celebrate the day and take further action. There is also a schools’ media competition, for which entries close September 11.
Both kits highlight Burma in building a better understanding of war [...]

“The Israelis told us it would be a cheap war with many
benefits. … Why oppose it? We’ll be able to hunt down and bomb
missiles, tunnels, and bunkers from the air. It would be a demo
for Iran.”
- a U.S. government consultant with close ties to Israel, quoted by Seymour Hersh in his New Yorker article, “Watching [...]

Voices For Justice: Micah Challenge National Gathering
Sunday October 15 – Tuesday October 17 (Canberra)
As we get closer to 2007, the halfway point for meeting the Millennium Development Goals to halve global poverty, voices for justice need to be heard more than ever. Join Micah Challenge’s first national gathering to meet other ‘ordinary prophets’, worship [...]

Jedi Jesus – Good Samaritan

Anti-poverty Week is an Australia-wide initiative that began several years ago and continues to provide opportunities for grass roots events to be held in your local community about poverty.
Visit http://www.antipovertyweek.org.au/ to:
* find out about activities
being held during the Week;
* find out ways of joining in
the Week;
* access resources about issues of poverty and hardship; and,
* get information [...]

Below is my Bible rant from the August Upper Room. It was simply left on tabes to spark conversations in the space with the video loops running.
Age?s Bible Rant ? My God! My God! Why have they domesticated me!
Sometimes you need to escalate conflict to bring about justice:
The domestication and the subtle cultural captivity of [...]

If we plunge our hand into a bowl of water,
Or stir up the fire with the bellows
Or tabulate interminable columns of figures on our bookkeeping table,
Or, burnt by the sun, we are plunged in the mud of the rice-field,
Or standing by the smelter’s furnace
We do not fulfil the same religious life as if in prayer [...]