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Concerned about environmental impact? Thinking about reducing your organization’s footprint? There are so many simple and cost-effective ways you can do so. Consider: When serving meals to groups, are cups and utensils recyclable? If water is served, why not offer water with lemon, and recyclable paper cups, reducing plastic? If the group gives out or sells branded items, Read more
December 21, 2011 in Sustainability: Our Life Raft by lms
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At the Center for Non Harming Ministries, we’re committed to a better understanding of communication. We understand that language and images matter, and that what we put into our minds shapes our thinking and our society. It was recently pointed out in an op-ed piece in The New York Times1 that the media, perhaps in an effort to protect the reader, avoids Read more
November 22, 2011 in Skillful Communication, Violence - Prevention and Response by lms
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Everyone’s talking about the Occupy movement, even in theological circles. Some of us are asking ourselves whether this has theological undertones, and what they might be. Some are asking where Jesus might stand on the various Occupy issues today. Others are comparing and contrasting the Occupy movement with the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The civil rights Read more
November 7, 2011 in Perspectives, Social Justice by lms
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Handshakes. They’re part of our culture. We’re taught that a firm grip shows strength, health, and trustworthiness. They’re meant to convey friendliness, yet their history is tied to the art of war, and in especially in flu season, they can cause unintentional harm. Can we reinvision the greeting, and the passing of the peace? The handshake was a a medieval Read more
October 9, 2011 in Compassion: for Self and Stranger, Health and Healing, Skillful Communication by lms
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Break out your bread pans and start grinding your wheat! August 1st marks the feast of bread on the Christian calendar. This traditional festival day, also known as Lammas Day, or the feast of St. Peter in Chains, was established to commemorate the Apostle Peter’s miraculous deliverance from prison. The reason it is commonly known Read more
July 28, 2011 in Celebrations and Holidays, Compassion: for Self and Stranger, Featured Articles by lms
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All throughout America, people of faith are looking with alarm as the poor fare worse, and Congress sets its sites on the few remaining programs left to help them. This is not only cruel, ill advised and short sighted (creating taxpayers is smarter than incarcerating the hopeless), it goes against biblical teachings. One of our Read more
March 25, 2011 in Compassion: for Self and Stranger, Social Justice by lms
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