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faithful-steward:

The terrible killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are another frightening example of why our work is so important.

Coleman McCarthy (American journalist, lecturer, and head of the Center for Teaching Peace, in Washington, DC) said, “The people who are going to be in prison for murder are in our school classrooms now, and so are the people who are going to be in the White House.  If we don’t teach them peace, someone else will teach them violence.”

We do teach peace.  We do it in a lot of ways, and it makes a difference.  We need to keep doing it, learn to do it even better, and reach as many people, young and old, as we can.

Thank you — each of you — for what you do.

As I think about our 3000 Miles for Peace campaign next spring, and what I want to say to the people I meet with along the way as I walk to Elizabethtown, I think that this message of learning peace rather than violence may be central.

Blessings,

Bob

Richard Rohr (via azspot)

PREACH THAT. 

thedailywhat:

Whatever Works of the Day: When it comes to traffic violations, the city of Caracas is clearly at the end of its invisible rope.

The district of Sucre in the eastern part of the Venezuelan capital has unleashed a horde of mimes onto its streets in hopes that their silent judgement will persuade bad drivers to curb their recklessness.

A troupe of about 120 mummers will utilize such tactics as finger-wagging and face-making in their pursuit of safer roads.

“Many times, the mimes can achieve what traffic police cannot achieve using warning and sanctions in their efforts to maintain control,” said Alex Ojeda, president of cultural organization which trained the mimes. “Mimes, on the contrary, often achieve the same objective by employing artistic and peaceful actions.”

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This is creative. 

Just discovered the United States Institute of Peace!

International Day of Prayer for Peace is September 21st