Informed Comment daily updates (12/25/2023) “Christ in the Rubble”

 

Pope and Pastor: “Prince of Peace rejected by the futile Logic of War;” “Christ in the Rubble” Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My mother was a Lutheran and the Coles were Catholics, though my grandfather fell away when he married a woman from the Brethren peace church. So it was striking to me that on this Christmas a Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem, Munther Isaac, and Pope Francis both made headlines with their […]

From BLM to Gaza: Inside the Youth-led fight for a Demilitarized Future By Alessandra Bergamin | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In January 2020, Dissenters — a grassroots, youth-led antiwar movement — began with the mission to connect violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. to the systems of oppression that fund, arm and enable global militarism. While born from the legacy of the […]

In First, Britain Likely Generated more Electricity from Wind/Water/Hydro than Fossil Fuels in 2023 By Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Joseph Day, University of Birmingham; and Katarina Pegg | – There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the […]

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