Massacre in Burma
While we have been so busy in the Church, speaking about who has a right to full inclusion in the body of Gods people and all of the rights that such membership entails...
While we have been consumed by the politics of schism...
The politics of money...
The politics of division...
Thousands of people have been quietly slaughtered in Myanmar... many hundreds of them peaceful monks protesting the injustice of the ruling military junta there.
And we have said nothing.
We have done nothing.
Not a whisper in our blogs or from our news service.
I ask your prayers today, dear readers, for the monks of Burma. And for the people of Burma. And for our own blindness and petty divisions.
O God of love and holy fire: Receive into your Kingdom the spirits of those who have been cast down by the hands of authority. Receive, in your mercy, the prayers of your faithful ones in every culture and in every age who rise up against injustice... even to the laying down of their own lives. So let their light shine before us that we may know what it is to be faithful to the Dharma of your son, speaking out against evil in the world even unto death. Through the witness of the Christ who did the same. Amen
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Free Burma!
International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words �Free Burma!�.
www.free-burma.org
Posted by: Free Burma! | October 1, 2007 9:40 AM
at vts tonight we had a special service for Burma, led by two students here from Burma and some others who were on a mission trip there last January. it was very good.
Posted by: thomas bushnell, bsg | October 1, 2007 8:27 PM