Writings: Shane & beating weapons into plowshares…really

When I talk to friends in the United States about all the gun-related deaths in the country, they say, “That’s just the way it is.”

When I talk to friends in Canada about all the gun-related deaths in the US, they say, “That’s just the way it is, there.”

And I believe it. I reside in Victoria, BC these days, and I heard two veterans in line at the coffeeshop on Remembrance Day last year saying it’s too bad that weapons have been deified by some, as the answer & a necessary thing.

That’s why it’s wonderful to hear what Shane Claiborne (from Sojourners) says & does: They’re taking guns & forging garden tools & plows & farm tools out of ’em, and using them, and bringing life, in this way, from death.

Faith, he says, is about believing in spite of the evidence & with that faith, the evidence begins to change.

It will move you: Read Shane’s article in Sojourners here.

It will move you: watch this little video. It’s real & it’s the evidence we need to support our belief that the killing – our killing – must end. And can end. And will end.

Peace be with you. Make it so, Number One (you’re my number one!)

 – Brother Ian