Can art conquer war?
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Can art conquer war?

Given spray paint, a broken wall and 15 minutes, what would you say to the Taliban? Ukraine erased Afghanistan from our news. Many people are entering 2023 weary of news of war and worried over inflation. Our lack of attention doesn’t mean that atrocities stop. Ukrainian, Afghan, Yezidi, Rohingya and Nigerian individuals are still living…

Waging Peace
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Waging Peace

Two of my teenage nieces traveled to Chicago this summer to teach Vacation Bible School. They live on a farm in Minnesota, surrounded by wide open fields and long stretches of straight highway. When they took the kids outside the church for a game one afternoon, they heard a rapid popping sound and assumed it was fireworks. The kids who grew up in downtown Chicago, however, knew immediately that it was gunfire and ran towards the basement stairs.

Peace feet

Peace feet

We live in a time of terror, or at least this is what the news media tells us repeatedly. The fear of violence has led the U.S. to incarcerate more people than ever before. Fear seems to lead to an approach of shoot first, ask questions later. Fear prods us to build bigger walls and drop better bombs. This is not new. History is often the account of wars written by the victors.