Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Kathleen Kern/Christian Peacemaker Teams

March 8 issue

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  Kern

  Just wars and civilian deaths

  In recent years, Mennonites and other pacifist Christians have been reaching across theological and philosophical lines to find common ground with proponents of the just-war tradition.

  Just-war theory sanctions war only when an aggressor is inflicting devastating violence on whole populations and when all other means of responding to this violence have proven ineffective. Most important, it considers all attacks on civilians unjustifiable.

Feb. 8 issue

• What Israelis might not know

  To the Israeli Ministry of the Interior: things you might not know about internationals working in Palestine.

Jan. 11 issue

• Nothing like apartheid

  I only got 10 minutes of church in this morning.
  I was late because soldiers told me and a bewildered German girl, who was visiting Bethlehem from a kibbutz near Eilat,
  that people like us could no longer ride with Palestinians on Bus 21.
  We had to go to another checkpoint, but he could not tell us how to get there.

Dec. 7, 2009 issue

• Eight martrys, with names

  Julia Elba Ramos was not a great cook, but she was becoming a better one as part of her housekeeping job at the University of Central America. In November 1989, she had just learned how to bake cakes, and was saving money to buy her own electric oven.

Nov. 9, 2009 issue

• Not the Great Commission

  Last month, I went to a talk given by former U.S. Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein at a local university. Speaking on behalf of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, he shared the following story of a soldier serving in Iraq who called him, sobbing, recently.

Oct. 12, 2009 issue

• Repression follows a coup

  I concluded my August column about the coup that ousted Honduran President Zelaya with, “I know of no military overthrow of a democratically elected government that has turned out well.”
  

Sept. 14, 2009 issue

• Famous visitor disappoints

  An Open Letter to Mike Huckabee:

Aug. 10, 2009 issue

• No good side in this coup

  As I write, the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras is now a month old. Its origins lie in an attempt by the Zelaya government to set in process a referendum that would change the Honduran constitution to allow presidential candidates to run for more than one term.

July 13, 2009 issue

• Guidelines for proselytizing

  I know when I am about to be proselytized by Muslims. I see the light in their eyes, the smile of anticipation.

June 8, 2009 issue

• Cambodia’s genocide trial

  A friend of mine once visited the genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He said the piles of skulls used most often to depict visually what happened in the 1970s did not affect him as much as the pictures on the wall — pictures of Cambodians with numbers on their chests and facial expressions that showed they knew they were about to die.

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