Jarrod McKenna is the co-founder of First Home Project, a community welcoming, housing and “giving a hand up not a hand-out” to recently arrived refugees, is the Teaching Pastor at Cornerstone Church in Perth, was a part of initiating the #LoveMakesAWay movement, and is a peace award winning nonviolent social change trainer, working primarily in the Middle East and Eastern Europe when not at home.
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Interview: Jim Wallis Reaches Out to Glenn Beck Down Under
A Salvation Army for the Earth
Vandana Shiva: Gandhi, MLK, and the Way of Jesus in the Obama Administration
'No Stranger to Danger': RIP Quaker, Lawyer, Indigenous Peace Warrior Waratah
Cosmic Child Abuse?: Mark Driscoll, N.T. Wright and Atonement that does Jesus Justice
A Generation Making Poverty Personal
"My father was born by a river bed and left to die. My mother grew up in extreme poverty. They made it. I am their story, they inspire me!" These are the words of my new friend Rudo, an amazing young woman from Zimbabwe who has come through so much and has now been chosen to be one of a thousand ambassadors of the Make Poverty History Road Trip who next week are acting to make history.
Fight or Die: How to Lose Friends and Irritate People
This video clip by The Work of The People is going to upset a lot of people.
This Is What the Emerging Church Looks Like?
'Christian' Militias and Tavis Smiley's MLK Documentary
A Major Victory for the Peace Movement Down Under
Audio: Social Justice on Australian Christian Radio
Easy Hate, Hard Love, Cornel West, and Barack Obama
Haiti and Anti-Evangelist Pat Robertson's 'Gospel' of Disgrace
South Park, Eco-Prophets, and Whale Wars
An Activism that Loves its Enemies
Climate Justice Clips: Reversing the Magnificat in Copenhagen
Obama's Nobel Speech: What If?
Climate Justice Clips: Archbishop Rowan Williams on 'Fashioning a Christian Response' to the Climate Crisis
Many would have read reports of Rowan Williams wonderful sermon in Copenhagen. Below are some of my favorite quotes. What some may have missed is this fantastic talk he gave. ...
Climate Justice Clips: More of Tutu's Message to Copenhagen, 'Join the Winning Side'
Climate Justice Clips: The Real Conspiracy at Copenhagen
This is analogous to the indulgences that the Catholic Church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what's happening...