OMNI
CHRISTMAS/LOVE
AND PEACEMAKING DAY NEWSLETTER, DECEMBER 25, 2015. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace and Justice.
What’s at stake: The wars and killings continue but we can
imagine a different world because we have witnessed on earth those who
possessed a vision of peace and justice.
December 25 celebrates the birthday
of the refugee founder of a compassionate, nonviolent Christianity.
Compilation of the OMNI
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL DAYS PROJECT[DB1] (and Weeks, Months) ends with this newsletter, but the collection
2008-2015 remains available. http://omnicenter.org/dick-bennetts-peace-justice-and-ecology-newsletters/dicks-newsletters-2015/
Contents Love and Peace
Day, Birthday of Jesus Newsletter December 25, 2015
(The Date Is
Not the Issue)
Dan Jones,
Kairos: Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Refugees
Refugees
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus and Rescue of Refugees 2015
Opposing
War: Four Articles about WWI 1914
Christmas Truce from The War Crimes Times
Dick, Celebrate
Non-violent Heroes, Tear Down the Monuments to Wars and
Warriors
Warriors
OMNI
Nonviolence Newsletters: #10 http://omnicenter.org/newsletters/2014/2014-06-12.pdf
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/.../how-december-25-became-christmas/
Andrew McGowan • 12/02/2015 ... Although Jesus' birth is celebrated every
year on December
25, Luke
and the other gospel writers offer no hint about the ... )
REFUGEE
JESUS AND REFUGEES 2015
Kairos, Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, works
to strengthen and expand transformative movements for social change that can
draw on the power of religions and human rights.
Jesus the Refugee – Matthew
2:1-15
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born
in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where
is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at
its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ When King Herod heard this, he
was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief
priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to
be born. They told him, ‘In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by
the prophet:
“And
you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd my people Israel.” ’
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd my people Israel.” ’
Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and
learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them
to Bethlehem, saying, ‘Go and search diligently for the child; and when you
have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.’ When
they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star
that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the
child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with
joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they
knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure-chests, they
offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a
dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.
The Escape to Egypt
The Escape to Egypt
Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother,
and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to
search for the child, to destroy him.’ Then Joseph got up, took the child and
his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of
Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the
prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I have called my son.’
The Massacre of the Infants
The Massacre of the Infants
When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the
wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and
around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he
had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through
the prophet Jeremiah:
‘A
voice was heard in Ramah,
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.’
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.’
JESUS
REFUGEE, Google Search, December 26, 2015
American Thinker - 1 day ago
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley invoked the
name of Jesus as he decried the
plan by the Obama administration to deport ...
Huffington Post - 2 days ago
refugeecrisis.worldrelief.org/jesus-the-refugee/
THE STORY. War, violence,
death...a man and a woman had to make the decision to flee or to stay in the
midst of danger. This decision was not only for ...
onemansweb.org
› Politics and Ethics › Australia and the Refugees
By this definition Jesus was a refugee. There is no question of
this, despite the fact that some Christians are clearly embarrassed by the
fact. Mary, Joseph and ...
mikeslaughter.com/blog/jesus-was-a-refugee
Jesus was a Refugee. When they had gone, an
angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the
child and his mother and escape to ...
thehill.com/blogs/ballot.../264207-omalley-jesus-was-a-refugee
The Hill
3 days ago - “A Christmas Refugee Roundup sounds like
something [Donald Trump] would concoct,” O'Malley tweeted Thursday. “Remember: Jesus was a ...
www.relevantmagazine.com/.../what-bible-says-about-how-treat...
Relevant
12 verses about loving
immigrants, refugees and displaced people. ... In reply Jesussaid: “A man was going
down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was ...
www.breitbart.com/big.../franklin-graham-jesus-was-a-refugee/
Breitbart
Sep 10, 2015 - Franklin Graham writes the
“Lord Jesus Christ sympathizes
with theserefugees--have you ever thought
about the fact that He was a refugee?”
press.anu.edu.au/calvin/mobile.../ch28.htm...
Australian
National University
At Christmas time we sing
again and again that Jesus is king, but isn't the ... And so Mary, Joseph and Jesus had to flee to Egypt
and become refugees in a ..
WWI 1914 Christmas
Truce: 4 Articles in The War Crimes Times
(Fall 2014) published by Veterans for Peace. http://omnicenter.org/newsletters/2013/2013-12-25.pdf This
number of TWCC discusses “the Christmas Truce of 1914, the Peace Movement’s
past and possible future, humanity in warriors, uselessness of war,” and at the
end reproduces Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon, “How come we play war
and not peace?”
War Is Over If You Want It,“ Message from
John and Yoko—ImaginePeace.com
Christmas in the Trenches” by John
McCutcheon (1984).
Simon Rees, “The
Christmas Truce,” the context of WWI and Story of the Truce
(from FirstWorldWar.com)
David Swanson (WorldBeyondWar.com),
“First Hand Accounts from Soldiers Who
Were There”
Were There”
A Reminder of
Peacemakers
We may know some
nonviolence history, of Thoreau, Gandhi, King, of Desmond Tutu and the Dalai
Lama, but let’s not forget or let’s learn about Anderson Sa, the Brazilian
musician who teaches young people alternatives to violence, Bruno Hussar,
promoter of interfaith harmony in his “Oasis of Peace” village, and Riane
Eisler, who taught the partnership
over the dominator model in human affairs, as explained in her book The Chalice and the Blade. Monuments to wars and warriors are
plentiful and increasing (now a new one in Washington, D.C., planned for WWI),
but how many statues are there of Thich Nhat Hanh, Colman McCarthy, Oscar
Arias, Henry Salt, Albert Schweitzer, Astrid Lindgren, Jane Goodall, and on and
on.
US military men and women are lauded for
their “service.” Let us concentrate on
service to humanity without violence in preventing violence and wars (and now
warming) and build celebrations to them.
Read Michael True’s two volumes of 60 US peacemakers, Justice Seekers, Justice Makers (1985)
and To Construct Peace: 30 More Justice
Seekers, Peace Makers (1992), both international in scope but mainly about
stellar US peacemakers—Dorothy Day, Joan Baez, Jim Corbett, Penny Lernoux,
Maura Clarke, Noam Chomsky, Dolores Huerta, Denise Levertov, and more. So peacemakers here’s our niche. We can match and then hopefully replace
the self-aggrandizing National Security State monuments with nonviolent peace
celebrations, another kind of SERVICE--
at our events, our work, our homes, and not only on December 25. Dick
OMNI
Nonviolence Newsletters: #10
NONVIOLENT
JESUS
Gandhi was quoted as saying:
“The only people on earth who do not see Christ and his teachings as nonviolent are Christians.”
Four
Artistic Creations of the WWI 1914 Christmas Eve Trenches Truce
“All
Is Calm” Song
“Silent Night” Opera
“Joyeux Noel” Film
“Christmas 1914 and 1968” Poem
Dick, Refugees:
Joseph, Mary, Jesus
The Unemployed
Jim Wallis,
Christmas Tithe for the Poor
Commercialism
and Materialism
Center for American Dream
Mike Masterson
Menendez,
Struggle Over Nativity Scenes on Public Property
For research
purposes, specific subjects can be located in the following alphabetized index,
and searched on the blog using the search box. The search box is located
in the upper left corner of the webpage.
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