DIY Aquaponics: 5 Best 100% Organic Fertilizers – Fish Safe! – Farming 4 Change

DIY Aquaponics: 5 Best 100% Organic Fertilizers – Fish Safe! – Farming 4 Change

DIY Aquaponics: 5 Best 100% Organic Fertilizers – Fish Safe!

Maria Earth August 30, 2013 DIY Tips, Urban Farming

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16 chemical elements are known to be important to plant growth and survival. Three non-mineral nutrients — hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), and carbon (C) — are absorbed from the air and water in a process known as photosynthesis (meaning “making things with light”). Plants absorb the other 13 nutrients through their roots. These nutrients and trace minerals consist of:

1. Nitrogen (N)
2. Phosphorus (P)
3. Potassium (K)
4. Calcium (Ca)
5. Magnesium (Mg)
6. Sulfur (S)
7. Boron (B)
8. Copper (Cu)
9. Iron (Fe)
10. Chloride (Cl)
11. Manganese (Mn)
12. Molybdenum (Mo)
13. Zinc (Zn)

There are not always enough of these minerals in a plant’s environment (e.g. soil, rocks, water, air, etc. ) to ensure maximum growth and crop yields, hence the widespread use of chemical fertilizers by many farmers and gardeners.

If you notice the plants in your aquaponic system are struggling to flower or fruit properly – maybe with shriveled, yellowing, and/or stunted growth, it is likely a sign of nutrient and/or mineral deficiency as detailed in the infograph above. Nutrient deficient, weak plants are more susceptible to disease and pest infestations.

In hydroponics or soil growing, providing these essential mineral elements is relatively straightforward. Just add the proper amount of hydroponic fertilizer based on your system’s water volume. With aquaponics, however, the addition of most synthetic plant fertilizers would result in dead fish. Fortunately, there are safe organic fertilizers that supply these vital nutrients. When addressing nutrient deficiencies in aquaponics — like when combating pests in AP gardens — the bottom-line question is whether the substance is toxic to fish.

Here’s a low down on our favorite organic fertilizers that will green things up and get things blooming in no time.

Our 5 Fav All Natural Non-Toxic Organic Fertilizers

• 1) Fish Poop (Nitrogen+)

Obviously, fish waste is the primary source of nitrogen and several other nutrients in any aquaponic system. Nitrogen is the first element listed in the makeup of modern-day synthetic fertilizers. Nitrogen is a part of all living cells and is a necessary part of all proteins, enzymes and metabolic processes involved in the synthesis and transfer of energy. It is a part of chlorophyll, the green pigment of the plant that is responsible for photosynthesis.

The nitrogen cycle is the same in soil as it is in water, it is simply a different medium that the bacteria process in. Soil farmers have been using manure to fertilize crops for millennia. Adding more fish to your system will generally help your plants grow more rapidly and produce more seeds, foliage, blooms, and fruits.

Be sure to buy organic fish food or else you’ll probably be adding GMO ingredients to your recirculating system! My favorite kind is AquaOrganic Aquaponics Fish Feed from the folks at The Aquaponic Source.

• 2) Steamed bone meal (Calcium & Phosphorus)

Bones from shellfish and animal bones will supply calcium and phosphorus to your plants. Like nitrogen, phosphorus is an essential part of the process of photosynthesis. It helps with the transformation of solar energy into chemical energy and is essential for plant maturation, root growth, blooming, and withstanding stress. Calcium, an essential part of plant cell wall structure, provides for normal transport and retention of other elements as well as strength in the plant. This is slow release stuff that must breakdown to become plant-available, so add immediately after starting your system then reapply once or twice a year, depending on plant load. And make sure you purchase steamed and ground bone meal to ensure the quickest release and bioavailability.

Amazing bat shit fertilizer – $24 + free shipping

• 3) Sea Bird Poop (Phosphorus and Potassium)

After phosphorus, potassium is absorbed by plants in larger amounts than any other mineral element except nitrogen and, in some cases, calcium. It aids in the building of protein and photosynthesis. Sprinkle some of this 100% natural organic fertilizer made from bat poop or “bat guano” to add both elements to your water garden once or twice a year.

4) Banana Peels (Potassium)

Simply save a few peels from your *organic* bananas, let dry, then pulverize in a coffee grinder or food processor before adding to your grow bed. Boom — free potassium boost. Apply once or twice a year.

• 5) Maxicrop Plus Iron (and/or chelated iron)

Maxicrop is Norwegian Ascophyllum Nodosum (kelp). It is a natural, non-pollutant product made from fresh growing seaweed but in a fully soluble form. It contains very small amounts of the major elements found in chemical fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium) and significant amounts of important trace elements including iron, manganese, zinc, boron, and magnesium. Some say you also need to add chelated iron in addition to Maxicrop due to plant availability reasons, which depend on your pH, water temperature, environmental conditions, etc… tho I have not had any iron deficiencies using only Maxicrop (but see #6 below!)

Buy 1 liter Maxicrop plus Iron for $15.95 + free shipping on Amazon Prime

Add the recommended amount (on the label, depending on version you buy) every other month or so. Think of it as a multivitamin for your aqua-garden! You can find this organic supplement, along with other seaweed or sea kelp products at most hydroponic stores and on Amazon. Buying the concentrated powder version, which effectively gives you 65 gallons of this liquid magic, is better value than the pictured bottled product above.

*BONUS* 6) Balanced pH

Soil PH Meter $15 on Amazon

Okay, this is not really a fertilizer. But maintaining optimal pH (a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of the water) is one of the most important metrics that affect the availability of nutrients to your plants. The ideal range of pH for the nitrogen process is slightly alkaline (7.0 to 9.0), whereas the ideal pH for micronutrient availability is slightly acidic (5.5 to 6.5). The lower pH can impact the efficiency of detoxifying ammonia to nitrite to nitrate. Stabilization of pH between 6.8 to 7.0 is paramount in managing the health of plants and fish simultaneously.

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Trump’s popularity among South Koreans increases following visit : International : News : The Hankyoreh

Trump’s popularity among South Koreans increases following visit : International : News : The Hankyoreh


Trump’s popularity among South Koreans increases following visit



Posted on : Nov.18,2017 15:53 KSTModified on : Nov.18,2017 15:53 KST







US President Donald Trump and South Korea President Moon Jae-in review a joint services honor guard at the official welcoming ceremony at the Blue House in honor of Trump’s visit on Nov. 7.

Leaders of Japan, China, US, and Russia remain broadly unpopular with SK publicA public opinion poll by Gallup Korea, a polling organization, found that US President Donald Trump’s likeability among South Koreans increased from 9% in May to 25% after his visit to South Korea. In terms of likeability, the leaders of the US, China, Japan and Russia ranked as follows: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.



In this poll of 1,003 individuals, which was carried out from Nov. 14 to Nov. 16 and released on Nov. 17 with a sample margin of ±3.1% and a confidence of 95%, 

25% of respondents said they found Trump “likeable.” 

Since that represented a 16% jump from a poll in May (9%), Gallup concluded that “President Trump’s visit to South Korea at the beginning of November appears to have had a positive effect on his image.”



This jump seems to have been due to the fact that Trump defied expectations by not making any explosive remarks or engaging in any bizarre behavior during his trip to the country. In contrast, former US President Barack Obama enjoyed a 71% likeability rating in two Gallup polls conducted in 2013.



When respondents were asked to rate the likeability of the four leaders of the US, China, Japan and Russia, Xi received 29%, Trump 25%, Putin 14% and Abe 6%.



Gallup also asked respondents to name the country whose relations with South Korea were the most important for peace on the Korean Peninsula. The survey found that 57% of respondents chose the US and 36% chose China. Japan and Russia were only selected by 2% and 0.4% of respondents. The response that the US is most important was most prevalent among those in their twenties and in their sixties and above - around 65% - while it was selected by 55% of people in their thirties and fifties. But respondents in their forties showed a tendency to regard the US (46%) and China (49%) similarly. “These were the same tendencies found in polls last year and in May of this year,” Gallup explained.



By Lee Seung-joon, staff reporter

“한국은 트럼프의 전쟁놀이터가 아니다!” 청년 30여 명, 국회 ‘기습시위’ - 민중의소리

“한국은 트럼프의 전쟁놀이터가 아니다!” 청년 30여 명, 국회 ‘기습시위’ - 민중의소리




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“한국은 트럼프의 전쟁놀이터가 아니다!” 청년 30여 명, 국회 ‘기습시위’

“한반도 전쟁 현실로 만드는 트럼프, 국회에는 발도 들이지 말라”
신종훈 기자 sjh@vop.co.kr
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청년들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이며 트럼프 미 대통령의 얼굴이 그려진 현수막을 펼치고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자


도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 방한을 나흘 앞둔 3일 국회에서 '트럼프 방한 반대'를 외치는 청년·학생들의 목소리가 울려퍼졌다.

'전쟁을 반대하고 평화를 사랑하는 청년학생'이라고 밝힌 이들 30여 명은 이날 국회 의원회관에 앞에서 모여있다가 12시께 "트럼프 방한을 반대한다"고 외치며 국회 본청을 향해 내달렸다.

이들은 곧장 국회 본청 앞 계단에서 '전쟁막말 트럼프는 국회연설 할 수 없다', '전쟁위기 고조 무기강매 통상압력 트럼프를 반대한다' 등이 적힌 대형 현수막을 전개했다. 또 '입만열면 혐오발언 트럼프는 오지마라', '한국은 트럼프의 전쟁놀이터가 아니다', '트럼프 국빈대접은 국가적 수치입니다', '무기강매 전쟁위협 Dump Trump!' 등이 적힌 손피켓을 펼쳐 보이며 구호를 외쳤다.

그러나 학생들은 곧장 국회 경비대 소속 경찰들에 의해 제지를 당했고 현수막도 빼앗겼다. 경찰에 막힌 이들은 곧장 국회 계단을 뛰쳐 올라 재진입을 시도했다. 이 과정에서 경찰들은 손피켓을 모조리 빼앗았고, 학생들은 완력을 사용하는 경찰들에게 "폭력을 쓰지 말라"고 호소했다.

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설을 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이기 위해 달려가고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

본청 입구를 철저히 봉쇄한 경찰들에 둘러싸인 학생들은 곧장 스크럼을 짜고 연좌농성에 돌입했다. 학생들은 "트럼프 방한 반대" 구호를 외치며 성명 낭독을 시도했고, 경찰은 성명문 탈취를 지속적으로 시도했다.

학생들은 성명에서 "각종 위협적인 막말을 남발하며 한반도 전쟁위기를 조장하는 트럼프가 어떻게 우리나라 국회에서 연설을 할 수 있단 말이냐"며 "트럼프 당신은 한반도에서 전쟁을 현실로 만들고 있다. '화염과 분노에 직면할 것', '폭풍전 고요', '북한 완전 파괴' 등은 한반도에서의 전쟁을 암시하는 당신들의 발언들"이라고 꼬집었다.

이들은 "베트남 전쟁, 1·2차 걸프전쟁, 아프가니스탄 전쟁 등은 2차 세계대전 이후 숱하게 벌어졌던 미국의 침략전쟁들"이라며 "그뿐인가. 미국은 한반도 폭격 계획을 수립하기도 했고, 94년 전쟁위기 때는 시뮬레이션까지 돌려가며 실제로 전쟁을 하려고 했다"고 지적했다.

아울러 "지금도 미국은 '북한 파괴' 운운하며 한반도 상공에 폭격기를 전개하고 핵잠수함과 항공모함을 남의 바다에 띄우면서 전쟁위기를 더욱 조장하고 있다"며 "우리는 '한반도에서 수천 명이 죽어도 괜찮다'고 생각하는 당신에게 모멸감을 느낀다. 우리도 동등한 사람이다. 전쟁을 원치 않으며 행복하게 생존하길 바랄 뿐"이라고 호소했다.

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

학생들은 "우리는 전쟁을 조장하는 당신의 방문을 반대한다. 국빈대접은 당치도 않다. 민의의전당 국회에는 발도 들이지 말라. 전쟁위기 조장과 한국인을 멸시한 것에 대해 사과하라"고 목소리를 높였다.

학생들의 성명문 낭독이 이뤄지는 동안에도 경찰들은 성명문 탈취를 계속해서 시도했다. 국회 본청 바로 앞에서 구호를 외치며 1시간가량 경찰과 대치하던 학생들은 오후 1시 10분께 전원이 연행을 당했다.

이들은 현재 영등포경찰서, 중부경찰서, 방배경찰서, 성동경찰서, 서부경찰서 등에서 조사를 받고 있으며, 민주사회를 위한 변호사모임(민변) 소속 변호사들이 접견 중인 것으로 전해졌다.

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설을 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이다 경찰에게 연행되고 있다. 이들은 연행되는 순간에도 ‘트럼프 반대’ 구호를 멈추지 않았다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설을 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이다 연행되면서도 구호를 외치고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

대학생들이 3일 오전 국회 본청 앞에서 트럼프 미국 대통령 방한 및 국회연설을 반대하는 기습시위를 벌이다 경찰차 연행된 가운데 한 연행자가 경찰차 창문을 열고 구호를 외치고 있다.ⓒ양지웅 기자

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평화나비
4 November at 12:03 ·



어제 오후, 도널트 트럼프 미 대통령의 방한에 반대하는 학생들의 국회 항의방문이 있었습니다. 30여명의 대학생과 청년들은 "전쟁 막말 트럼프의 국회 연설에 반대한다"는 의미로 "트럼프 반대, 전쟁반대"를 외치며 국회로 향했습니다.

평화나비 네트워크에서 활동하고 있는 두 명의 대학생들도 이 항의방문에 함께 했고, 연행되어 조사를 받은 뒤 현재 유치장에 있는 상황입니다. 다행이도 두 친구 모두 크게 다친 곳 없이 없는 것으로 확인되었습니다.


일본군'위안부'피해자 할머님들께서는 "다시는 전쟁이 일어나지 않아야 나같은 피해자가 생기지 않는다"라며 반전운동가, 평화운동가로 활동하고 계시기도 합니다. 평화나비 또한 할머니의 뜻을 이어받아, 전쟁없는 세상 평화로운 세상을 만들기 위한 활동에 함께 하고 있습니다.

지난 9월 길원옥 할머니께서는 주한 미국 대사관을 방문하여 "미국은 왜 전쟁 할 생각만 하느냐. 전쟁을 할 게 아니라 부디 위안부 문제를 해결하기 위해 국제사회에서 힘쓰는 역할을 해달라"고 호소하시기도 했습니다.

일본군'위안부'문제의 진정한 해결은, 단순한 공식사죄와 법적배상을 넘어 다시는 이러한 전쟁 범죄, 여성인권유린 범죄가 생기지 않도록 하겠다는 기억하고 반성하고 함께하는 움직입니다.

전쟁으로, 힘으로, 무기로, 싸움으로 평화를 만들겠다는 트럼프의 평화는 진정한 평화가 아닙니다. 전쟁은 우리의 삶과 평화를 깨부수고, 언제든 '위안부'문제를 다시 만들어낼 것입니다.

이에 이 땅에 평화, 할머니들께 명예와 인권 회복을, 더 나아가 일본군'위안부'문제의 진정한 해결을 만들고자 하는 대학생 동아리 <평화나비 네트워크>는 전쟁위기를 조성하고 한반도 평화를 위협하는 전쟁광 트럼프의 방한에 강력히 반대합니다.

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　米サンフランシスコ市議会は１４日、中国系米国人の団体から慰安婦像と碑文の寄贈を受け入れる決議案を全会一致で可決。これを受けて大阪市の吉村洋文市長が１５日付で、エドウィン・Ｍ・リー市長に決議通知に対する拒否権の行使を求める手紙を送付。正式に公共物化された場合、姉妹都市関係の解消に踏み切る意向を明らかにしました（１６日付）。

　「やはり決断しましたね。大阪市長を支持します」（女性）▽「このままではサンフランシスコが反日地域になってしまう。総領事館は即刻、市長に拒否権を発動するよう働きかけるべきだ」（栃木県、６２歳男性）▽「いくら自由と民主主義の国でも、自国政府が関わった日韓合意に、地方都市がさからうような行為をするとは。日本の国会でも議論してほしい」（女性）▽「『極めて遺憾』など曖昧な表現の繰り返しが日本と日本人の誇りと歴史を損ねている。政府には『歴史戦』を断ち切る責務がある」（埼玉県、６０代男性）▽「米政府が行った日本の戦争犯罪の大規模な再調査で組織的な慰安婦を裏付ける文書は１点もなかった。もっともっと国民に浸透させてほしい」（男性）▽「ベトナムに働きかけて、ライダイハン問題を象徴する像の設置を進めては。おとなげないという意見もあるだろうが、日本人の価値観に基づく美学は外交的には通用しない」（東京都、６７歳男性）

　先の米トランプ大統領訪問時の晩餐（ばんさん）会で、独島エビをメニューに載せ、元慰安婦を招待した韓国政府。１０日付主張「愚かさにも限度があろう」に「こういうことを偏りなく、誰にでも理解できるように書いてくれるのは産経だけだ」（茨城県、６５歳男性）。１１日付産経抄「騒げば騒ぐほど、世界は韓国の過去の悪行（ライダイハン問題）に注目する」には「国会議員でさえこういう歴史的事実を知らない。もっと多くの人に知らしめてほしい」（東京都、８７歳男性）

　昭和５２年に横田めぐみさんが北朝鮮に拉致され、１５日で４０年。１４日付「めぐみへの手紙　横田滋、早紀江」、１５日付からの「拉致４０年　めぐみさんを救え」。「『拉致を解決できないのは国の恥』という横田さんの言葉を政府はどう聞いているのでしょうか。本当に申し訳なく思っているなら、本当に具体的な措置を検討すべきです」（男性）（読者サービスグループ）

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Comfort women: The human face of war in Korea
Peace & Justice November 20, 2017


PC(USA) peace delegation visits South Korea’s War and Women’s Human Rights Museum
by Kathy Melvin | Presbyterian News Service


SEOUL, South Korea — War has a human face. Every shadow, every line, every wrinkle is part of the story.


A PC(USA) peace delegation visited the War & Women’s Human Rights Museum during their recent visit to South Korea. They watched video interviews with the “comfort women”, who spoke no English. Although there were English subtitles, they weren’t necessary. Their faces said everything.


Estimates are that as many as 200,000 women were kidnapped or lured by the promise of jobs and forced into sexual slavery in “comfort stations” for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Most of the women came from the Korean Peninsula. Some women came other Southeast Asia countries including Thailand, China and the Philippines. Some were as young as 14. “Comfort women” became a derogatory term, so they are now known as “halmoni,” or grandmother. The handful still living in South Korea are in their 80s and 90s.


The halmoni suffered in silence for many years. Many never returned to Korea. Those that did said nothing out of shame. Their stories began to emerge with the founding of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan on Nov. 16, 1990. The halmoni and their supporters began protesting outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 1992. They are asking Japan to acknowledge the crime, make an official apology, provide legal reparation and record the stories in the country’s official history.


In 2011, they held their 1,000th protest. There are still there every Wednesday.


Down an alley in a 30-year-old house in Seongsan-dong, west of the city, the history of these women is carefully documented. The space is small, only about 15 rooms and areas, but the impact is powerful. After an introductory video, visitors walk on a gravel road with sounds of cannon’s and soldier’s footsteps that lead to a dark basement to simulate the feeling of isolation and oppression the women felt. There is another room in which visitors can follow the movement’s history containing research materials and video footage. The focal point of the room is a replica of a peace statue that depicts a young girl with an empty chair next to her. The original statue faces the Japanese embassy. Comfort women statues have emerged around the world, including one in San Francisco.


The entry ticket to the museum changes daily with real stories of the victims. On November 1 it was Bong Gi Bae, born in Yesan Chungcheongnam-do in 1914.

Promised the ability to earn “big money,” she was taken to Tokashki Okinawa in 1943 and forced into sexual slavery, assigned to a comfort station. When U.S. troops bombed the comfort station she ran away with Japanese soldiers to the mountains. She was later detained in a US prison camp. After her release, she earned a living through prostitution and menial labors. In 1975 her story was published in a regional newspaper. In 1991, she passed away at the age of 77 in Okinawa. She never returned home.


Quantisha Mason, a recent graduate of McCormick Seminary, spent 2013-2014 as a Young Adult Volunteer in Korea. She joined the peace delegation and made her second visit to the museum, which opened in 2012.


“I’ve been here a couple of times and it doesn’t get any easier,” she said. “When we hear about war, it’s always something that men do, but women’s bodies are a battlefield too and the battle is happening in lots of places around the world. I don’t think we can begin to realize the strength it takes to harbor this anger for so many years and remain silent. I don’t know how they lived with it.”


The Rev. Howard Kim, pastor of the Korean Presbyterian Church of South Bay, was born in Korea, but it was his first time at the museum. “I felt strong humility for what had been done and that we can still repeat those kinds of inhumane acts against fellow human beings’ other places in the world,” he said. “It was sad and depressing.”


Images of yellow butterflies are all around the museum. The Butterfly Fund was chosen as a symbol of hope to women suffering from sexual violence in armed conflicts. In the museum’s printed materials, it says, “The butterfly represents our wish that all the women in agony, including the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, would be able to spread their wings free from discrimination, repression and violence.”


On March 8, 2012, International Women’s Day, halmoni Bok-dong Kim and Won-ok Gil made a pledge to donated their entire legal reparations from the Japanese government once they receive them. This was the beginning of the Butterfly Fund. The fund is currently supporting victims in the in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Vietnam.


The first recipient was Rebecca Masika Katsuva, who lives in Congo. In 1988, during the Congo civil war, Maskila and her 9 and 13-year-old daughters were gang raped by soldiers. Her husband was killed. The following year she created “Listening House” to care for women who had gone through similar experiences and children born of forced pregnancy. Her mother helped her at the shelter for but was later raped and murdered.


The Korean Army participated in the Vietnam War from September 1964 to March 1973 and was accused of massacring and sexually assaulting civilians. The butterfly fund is now helping victims of sexual violence by Korean soldiers in Vietnam.


The peace delegation traveled to South Korean November 1-8, in response to Overture 12-01 and Commissioner’s Resolution 12-13, adopted at General Assembly 222 (2016) Portland, focusing on the reunification of the Korean Peninsula and the need to build upon the increasing momentum toward peace.


Leading the delegation was the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, Stated Clerk of the Office of General Assembly (OGA). He was joined by the Rev. Jose Luis Casal, director of Presbyterian World Mission, the Rev. Robina Winbush, assistant stated clerk and director of OGA’s office of ecumenical relations and the Rev. Mienda Uriarte, coordinator of World Mission’s Asia-Pacific office. The Rev. Ed Arnold and the Rev. Ed Kang, members of Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery, originators of the overture also attended, as well as several OGA and PMA representatives.


Resource materials are currently being developed by the Rev. Unzu Lee and will be available on the PC(USA) website early next year.

1711 [김조년의 맑고 낮은 목소리] 평화만들기와 AVP 훈련

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[김조년의 맑고 낮은 목소리] 평화만들기와 AVP 훈련

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몇 번 말하고 희망한 것이지만, 평생을 하고 해도 후회하지 않을 삶이 무엇일까를 생각하는 중에 ‘화평한 맘을 먹고 살아가는 것’과 ‘내 자신이 평화가 되는 것’이 나로서는 매우 중요한 평화활동이라고 확신하였다. 나 자신의 평화로운 삶과 내가 몸을 담고 있는 사회의 평화로운 분위기와 삶의 창조는 결코 떨어질 수 없다. 이것은 평화로운 사회를 이렇게 만들자고 외치면서, 내 자신이 평화 자체가 되는 삶의 수련이나 훈련은 떨어질 수 없이 동시에 일어나야 한다는 일이다. 그렇게 하기 위한 일 중 하나가 AVP(Alternatives to Violence Project) 운동에 참여하는 일이다. 이것은 우리 속에 있거나 밖에 있는 온갖 폭력성을 비폭력 평화의 기운으로 바꾸어 살아가자는 운동이요 훈련이다.

1971년 9월 9일에 미국의 뉴욕 에티카 감옥에서 굉장한 사건이 일어났다. 70 달러를 훔쳤다는 죄명으로 무기징역형을 받고 캘리포니아 주 살러대드 교도소에서 10년간 수감생활을 하던 흑인 조지 잭슨(George Jackson)이 여러 번의 감옥개선과 감옥 내 민권운동을 하던 중, 탈옥을 시도하다가 간수가 쏜 총에 맞아 사망한 것을 기념하여 수감자들이 봉기한 날이다. 이 감옥의 수감자 54%가 흑인이었고, 간수는 100% 백인이었다. 물론 다른 인종의 수감자들도 있었다. 이날 그들은 점심과 저녁식사를 거부하였고, 허술한 문을 부수고 간수 40명을 인질로 하여 교도소 운동장에서 모였다. 여기에서 5일간 인종차별이 없는 공동체를 스스로 꾸려나갔다. 이 광경을 현장에서 취재한 뉴욕 타임스 컬럼리스트 Tom Wicker는 ‘죽음의 시간’이란 책을 썼다. 모든 사람이 하나가 된 이날들을 증언하는 책이다. 그러나 당시 뉴욕시장 넬슨 록펠러는 군사공격을 명령하고 기관총으로 사격하여 31명이 사살됐다. 물론 이때 인질로 잡혔던 간수 9명도 함께 사살됐다. 이 사건을 계기로 감옥 안에서 수감자들 스스로 항의방법을 바꾸고, 성찰하며, 바깥에서 감옥 안의 인권을 위하여 일하는 사람들과 연대하게 되었다. 이 사건으로 에티카 감옥은 폐쇄되었고 많은 사람들이 그린 헤이븐 감옥으로 이감되었다.


그린 헤이븐 감옥에서는 끊임없이 출소한 수감자들이 재범자가 되어 다시 수감되는 문제에 깊은 생각을 하게 되었다. 이때 폭력이 난무한 세상에서 스스로 평화롭게 살고, 감옥에 들어갈 폭력을 사용하지 않도록 자신의 자녀들을 평상시에 교육하고 양육하는 퀘이커 교도들에게 그린 헤이븐 감옥 당국자는 이 문제에 대하여 개입하여 달라고 요청하였다. 이렇게 하여 1975년 그들은 민권운동가들과 함께 어떻게 하면 폭력성을 근본부터 비폭력 평화의 상황으로 바꿀 것인가를 실험하였다. 자신들의 자녀들을 가르치고 양육하였던 것을 교도소 수감자들에게 실험하였다. 그 결과는 매우 탁월하게 달라졌다는 것이다. 그로부터 미국에 있는 여러 교도소에서 그 훈련방법을 도입하였고, 지금은 다른 나라로도 전달되어 세계에서 60여 개국에서 이 운동이 전개되고 있다. 여기에 참여하는 사람들은 처음에는 퀘이커교도들이 많았지만, 지금은 모든 사람 모든 종교와 인종에 속하는 사람들이 이 운동에 참여한다. 우리나라에는 2007년에 도입되어 10년이 되었다. 나는 바로 이 운동에 몇 몇 친구들과 함께 처음부터 지금까지 참여해 온다.

금년 11월 5일부터 10일까지 네팔의 카트만두에서 전 세계 AVP 활동가들 160여 명이 모여서 큰 워크숍과 회의를 하였다. 우리나라 활동가들 11명도 참여하였다. 나도 참여하였다. 각자 자기들의 나라와 사회에서 어떻게 그 운동을 전개했는가를 보고하는 시간이 많았다. 감옥에서 시작된 훈련과정이지만, 폭력을 원천으로부터 바꾸어야 한다는 운동으로, 학교, 지역사회, 군대, 난민지역, 유치원, 가족공동체, 갈등지역 등에서 아주 다양하게 이 운동이 펼쳐지는 것을 배웠다. 이것은 가르치는 것도 아니고, 이론을 펼치는 것도 아닌, 스스로 속과 겉에 있는 폭력성을 비폭력 평화의 기운으로 바꾸는 운동이다. 그 훈련 또는 수련모임에 참석한 사람들은 자신들이 얼마나 깊은 데서부터 폭력의 문화와 생활 속에 푹 쌓여 있으며, 스스로 폭력행사의 가능성 속에 있는가를 성찰한다. 그리고 어떻게 자신이 그러한 폭력성의 노예상태로부터 벗어나게 되는가를 경험한다. 그것을 일상생활에서 실험하고 실천한다. 이것은 개인과 사회 전체를 향한 도전이다.

우리가 왜 폭력성을 갖게 되었는가를 알 수는 없다. 그러나 그것들이 어떻게 폭발하는가를 일상생활에서 많이 본다. 이 운동과 훈련을 통하여 그것을 극복하는 것으로 이렇게 단순하게 정리하여 본다.

• 일단 우리는 모두 자신을 존중할 필요가 있다. 
• 동시에 다른 사람을(사물을) 존중하고 배려한다. 
• 최선에 대한 기대를 가진다. 
• 반응하거나 행동하기 전에 생각한다. 
• 그리고 모든 것에서 비폭력스러운 해결의 길을 찾는다. 
• 즉 평화로운 방법으로 해결의 길을 찾는단 말이다. 

이것을 기초로 활동하는 동안 자신도 모르게 스스로 평화로운 기운으로 변화되는 것을 경험한다.

일단 이 운동은 모든 사람 속에는 폭력성을 비폭력으로 바꾸는 힘(Transforming Power)을 가지고 있다고 믿는다.
이 운동은 적대관계에 있거나 서로 통하지 않는 그룹이나 집단 또는 사람들과도 함께 펼칠 필요가 있다.

• 이것은 어떤 종교의 교리도 아니고, 깊은 철학의 이론도 아니다. 우리 일상에서 만나는 삶이다. 
• 이 길이 개인이나 집단이나 민족이나 국가들 사이에서도 찾아진다면 분명히 평화로운 사회를 만드는 길은 잘 닦여질 것이라 믿는다. 
• 다시 말하면 평화는 어떤 제도로 확립되는 것도 아니고, 어떤 선언으로 이루어지는 것도 아니다. 주장도 아니고 막연한 희망도 아니다. 
• 그것은 아주 단순한 실제 삶이다. 그 삶은 어느 순간으로 끝나는 것이 아니라, 사는 동안 끊임없이 자신을 갈고 닦는 수련과정이다. 
• 평화는 그런 수련과정이면서 동시에 그 결과로 올 것이다.

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Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto
She wants to be independent – and taken care of. She loves rap, while finding the lyrics offensive to the core. In this extract from her latest book, a 'flawed' feminist reveals all

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'The more I write, the more I put myself out into the world as a bad feminist but, I hope, a good woman.' Photograph: Jennifer Silverberg for the Guardian

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Iam failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

There are many ways in which I am doing feminism wrong, at least according to the way my perceptions of feminism have been warped by being a woman.

I want to be independent, but I want to be taken care of and have someone to come home to. I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive. Sometimes I feel an overwhelming need to cry at work, so I close my office door and lose it.

I want to be in charge, respected, in control, but I want to surrender, completely, in certain aspects of my life. Who wants to grow up?

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. The classic Ying Yang Twins song Salt Shaker? It's amazing. "Bitch you gotta shake it till your camel starts to hurt." Poetry. (I am mortified by my music choices.) I care what people think.


Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically. I once live-tweeted the September issue.

I love dresses. For years I pretended I hated them, but I don't. Maxi dresses are one of the finest clothing items to become popular in recent memory. I have opinions on maxi dresses! I shave my legs! Again, this mortifies me. If I take issue with the unrealistic standards of beauty women are held to, I shouldn't have a secret fondness for fashion and smooth calves, right?

I know nothing about cars. When I take my car to the mechanic, they are speaking a foreign language. I still call my father with questions about cars, and am not terribly interested in changing any of my car-related ignorance.

Despite what people think based on my writing, I very much like men. They're interesting to me, and I mostly wish they'd be better about how they treat women so I wouldn't have to call them out so often. And still, I put up with nonsense from unsuitable men even though I know better and can do better. I love diamonds and the excess of weddings. I consider certain domestic tasks as gendered, mostly all in my favour because I don't care for chores – lawn care, bug killing and trash removal, for example, are men's work.

Sometimes – a lot of the time, honestly – I totally fake "it" because it's easier. I am a fan of orgasms, but they take time, and in many instances I don't want to spend that time. All too often I don't really like the guy enough to explain the calculus of my desire. Then I feel guilty because the sisterhood would not approve. I'm not even sure what the sisterhood is, but the idea of a sisterhood menaces me, quietly, reminding me of how bad a feminist I am.
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I love babies, and I want to have one. I am willing to make certain compromises (not sacrifices) in order to do so – namely, maternity leave and slowing down at work to spend more time with my child, writing less, so I can be more present in my life. I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind of thinking keeps me up at night, but I pretend it doesn't because I am supposed to be evolved. My success, such as it is, is supposed to be enough if I'm a good feminist. It is not enough. It is not even close. Because I have so many deeply held opinions about gender equality, I feel a lot of pressure to live up to certain ideals. I am supposed to be a good feminist who is having it all, doing it all. Really, though, I'm a woman in her 30s, struggling to accept herself and her credit score. For so long I told myself I was not this woman – utterly human and flawed. I worked overtime to be anything but this woman, and it was exhausting and unsustainable and even harder than simply embracing who I am.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

At some point, I got it into my head that a feminist was a certain kind of woman. I bought into grossly inaccurate myths about who feminists are – militant, perfect in their politics and person, man-hating, humourless. I bought into these myths even though, intellectually, I know better. I'm not proud of this. I don't want to buy into these myths any more.

Bad feminism seems the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blogposts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry I realise that I'm undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged. The more I write, the more I put myself out into the world as a bad feminist but, I hope, a good woman – I am being open about who I am and who I was and where I have faltered and who I would like to become. No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism. Like most people, I'm full of contradictions, but I also don't want to be treated like shit for being a woman. I am a bad feminist. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
How to be friends with another woman

1 Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses – pretty but designed to slowwomen down.
Photograph: Alena Silkova/Alamy

1a This is not to say women aren't bitches or toxic or competitive sometimes, but rather that these are not defining characteristics of female friendship, especially as you get older.
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1b If you find that you are feeling bitchy, toxic or competitive towards the women who are supposed to be your closest friends, look at why and figure out how to fix it and/or find someone who can help you fix it.

2 A lot of ink is given over to mythologising female friendships as curious, fragile and always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

3 If you are the kind of woman who says, "I'm mostly friends with guys" and acts like you're proud of that, like that makes you closer to being a man or something, and less of a woman, as if being a woman is a bad thing, see item 1b. It's OK if most of your friends are guys, but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, well, soul-search a little.

3a If you feel it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

3b I used to be this kind of woman. I'm sorry to judge.

4 Sometimes, your friends will date people you cannot stand. You can either be honest about your feelings or you can lie. There are good reasons for both. Sometimes you will be the person dating someone your friends cannot stand. If your man or woman is a scrub, just own it so you and your friends can talk about more interesting things. My go-to explanation is, "I am dating an asshole because I'm lazy." You are welcome to borrow it.

5 Want nothing but the best for your friends, because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.

5a If you're having a rough go of it, and a friend is having the best year ever, and you need to think some dark thoughts about that, do it alone, with your therapist, or in your diary, so that when you actually see your friend, you can avoid the myth discussed in item 1.

5b If you and your friend(s) are in the same field and can collaborate or help each other, do this without shame. It's not your fault your friends are awesome. Men invented nepotism and practically live by it. It's OK for women to do it, too.

5c Don't tear other women down, because even if they're not your friends, they are women and this is just as important. This is not to say you cannot criticise other women, but understand the difference between criticising constructively and tearing down cruelly.

5d Everybody gossips, so if you are going to gossip about your friends, at least make it fun and interesting. Never say, "I never lie" or, "I never gossip", because you are lying.

5e Love your friends' kids even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.

6 Tell your friends the hard truths they need to hear. They might get pissed about it, but it's probably for their own good. Once, my best friend told me to get my love life together and demanded an action plan, and it was irritating but also useful.

6a Don't be totally rude about truth-telling, and consider how much truth is needed to get the job done. Finesse goes a long way.

6b These conversations are more fun when preceded by an emphatic, "GIRL…"

7 Surround yourself with women you can get sloppy drunk with, who won't draw stupid things on your face if you pass out, and who will help you puke if you overcelebrate, and who will also tell you if you get sloppy drunk too much or behave badly when you are sloppy drunk.
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8 Don't flirt, have sex or engage in emotional affairs with your friends' significant others. This shouldn't need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don't want to be involved with an asshole who's used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.

9 Don't let your friends buy ugly outfits or accessories you don't want to look at when you hang out. This is just common sense.

10 When something is wrong and you need to talk to your friends and they ask how you are, don't say, "Fine." They know you're lying and it irritates them, and a lot of time is wasted with the back-and-forth of, "Are you sure?" and, "Yes?" and, "Really?" and, "I AM FINE." Tell your lady friends the truth so you can talk it out and either sulk companionably or move on to other topics.

11 If four people are dining, split the bill evenly four ways. We are adults now. We don't need to add up what each person had any more. If you're high rolling, treat everyone and rotate who treats. If you're still in the broke stage, do what you have to do.

12 If a friend sends a crazy email needing reassurance about love, life, family or work, respond accordingly and in a timely manner, even if it is just to say, "Girl, I hear you." If a friend sends you 30 crazy emails needing reassurance about the same damned shit, be patient, because one day that's going to be you tearing up Gmail with your drama.

13 My mother's favourite saying is, "Qui se ressemble s'assemble." Whenever she didn't approve of whom I was spending time with, she'd say this ominously. It means, essentially, you are whom you surround yourself with.

• This is an edited extract from Bad Feminist: Essays, by Roxane Gay, published by Constable & Robinson at £12.99. To order a copy for £10.39, with free UK mainland p&p, go to theguardian.com/bookshop or call 0330 333 6846.
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Eric Metaxas - Wikipedia

Eric Metaxas - Wikipedia



Eric Metaxas
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Eric Metaxas

Metaxas in 2012
Born 1963 (age 53–54)
Astoria, Queens, New York City, U.S.
Occupation Author, talk show host
Alma mater Yale University
Genre

Biographies
history
Christian
Website
www.ericmetaxas.com


Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and radio host. He is known for two biographies,

• Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and 
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spyabout Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 

He has also written humor, children's books, and scripts for VeggieTales. Metaxas is the founder and host of the NYC-based event series, "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life" and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Eric Metaxas Show [1]



Contents [hide]
1Biography
2Writing
3Radio show
4Other activities
5Awards
6References
7External links


Biography[edit]

Metaxas was born in New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University, where he edited the Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.[2] He is Greek on his father's side and German on his mother's, while he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment.[3]

Metaxas was raised in the Greek Orthodox Church and while he has not formally left it (saying he has "great respect" for it) he has attended Calvary-St. George Episcopal Church in New York since 2001.[4][5] Metaxas describes himself as a "Mere Christian" after the works of C.S. Lewis, saying his books "don't touch upon anything at all where Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians differ. They express just the basics of the faith, from a basic, ecumenical Christian viewpoint. They only talk about the Christian faith that they have agreement on."[4]

Writing[edit]

Metaxas's works If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty and Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life are both New York Times best selling books.[6][7]

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy won the 2010 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian Book of the Year.[8] Bonhoeffer is a New York Timesbest seller, climbing to #1 in the e-book category.[9] It also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award.[10][11] Although the book is popular in the United States among evangelical Christians, Bonhoeffer scholars have criticized Metaxas's book as unhistorical, theologically weak, and philosophically naive. Professor of German History and Bonhoeffer scholar Richard Weikart, for example, credits his "engaging writing style," but claims Metaxas has a lack of intellectual background to interpret Bonhoeffer properly.[12] The biography has also been criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars Victoria Barnett[13] and Clifford Green.[14] However, several literary critics have praised Metaxas' work as a "weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer" and a "complete biography of a great theologian" with "liberal use of primary sources."[15][16][17]

Metaxas's biography of Wilberforce, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, was the companion book to the 2006 film.[18]

He has also written over thirty children's books, including It's Time to Sleep, My Loveand Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving. He has written scripts for VeggieTales(even the Hamlet parody "Omelet" from "Lyle the Kindly Viking") and provided the voice of the narrator in "Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen", based on the Book of Esther.[citation needed]

Other writing has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.[19][20]
Radio show[edit]

In April 2015, Metaxas began hosting the two-hour, daily nationally syndicated radio program broadcast from the Empire State Building in New York called "The Eric Metaxas Show". The show is syndicated by the Salem Radio Network.[21] Recent notable guests include Dinesh D'Souza, Dick Cavett, David Brooks, Kirsten Powers, Kathie Lee Gifford, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, and Andrew Garfield.[22]
Other activities[edit]

Metaxas speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference

Metaxas is the founder and host of a New York City event series called "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life," where he interviews thinkers and writers, and is labeled as a forum on "life, God, and other small topics" in Metaxas' book about the series.[23] Dr. Francis Collins, Malcolm Gladwell, Sir John Polkinghorne, Kathleen Norris, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Dick Cavett, N.T. Wright, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Dame Alice von Hildebrand, Peter Hitchens and Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks have all been guests.[24]

Metaxas has been featured as a cultural commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel, most frequently on the show "Red Eye";[25] and has discussed his own books on The History Channel, C-Span's Book TV, the Glenn Beck Program, and Huckabee. He has been featured on many radio programs, including NPR's Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, The Laura Ingraham Show, and On Being with Krista Tippett, as well as Hugh Hewitt, Bill Bennett, Kerby Anderson's Point of View, and The Alan Colmes Show.

In the late 1990s Metaxas wrote BreakPoint radio commentaries for former Nixon aide and Prison Fellowship founder Charles "Chuck" Colson. Upon Colson’s death in 2012, Metaxas, along with John Stonestreet, became the voice of "BreakPoint," which now airs weekdays on 1350 outlets across the country.[26]

On February 2, 2012, Metaxas was the keynote speaker for the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast.[27]

Metaxas has testified before Congress about the rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and abroad, and he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013 and 2014 on the issue of Religious Freedom.[28][29][30]

On March 25, 2014 Metaxas was announced as "Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Large" of The King's College in New York City.
Awards[edit]

Metaxas is the winner of several awards for his work, including the Becket Fund's Canterbury Medal in 2011 and the Human Life Review's Defender of Life Award in 2013.[31][32] Metaxas is the recipient of three honorary doctorate degrees, one from Hillsdale College, another from Liberty University, and the most recent from Sewanee: The University of the South.[33][34][35]
References[edit]

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^ Jump up to:a b Vicki J. Yiannias (August 1, 2007). "Eric Metaxas and the God Question". Greek News.
Jump up^ Sarah Pulliam Bailey (July 29, 2013). "Is Eric Metaxas the next Chuck Colson? _ UPDATED". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
Jump up^ https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/07/17/hardcover-nonfiction/
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Jump up^ "John C. Pollock Award for Christian Biography". Beeson Divinity School Samford University. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
Jump up^ "The Christophers". The Christophers. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
Jump up^ Richard Weikart, "Metaxas' Counterfeit Bonhoeffer: An Evangelical Critique: Review of Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy", California State University. [1]
Jump up^ "Review of Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich". Journal.ambrose.edu. September 3, 2010. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
Jump up^ Green, Clifford (October 5, 2010). "Hijacking Bonhoeffer". The Christian Century. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
Jump up^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich by Eric Metaxas, Author". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October2015.
Jump up^ Klamm, Judy. "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas". Kansas City Public Library. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
Jump up^ "BONHOEFFER by Eric Metaxas". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
Jump up^ Metaxas, Eric. "Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas". Harpercollins.com. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
Jump up^ Eric, Metaxas (February 16, 2001). "No More Pluto, No More Taupe". NYTimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
Jump up^ Eric, Metaxas (December 25, 2014). "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God". WSJ. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
Jump up^ "Salem Media Group and Eric Metaxas Join Forces with a New Daily Show". PR News Wire. CAMARILLO, Calif. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
Jump up^ "Have you heard the Eric Metaxas Show? Highlights Ahead!". www.ericmetaxas.com. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
Jump up^ "Life, God, and Other Small Topics: Conversations from Socrates in the City". Retrieved August 18, 2015.
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Jump up^ "Obama says faith mandates him to care for the poor". The Washington Post. May 23, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
Jump up^ "Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe, Threat to other Faiths & Democracy Addressed at Hearing". Chris Smith. February 27, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
Jump up^ "Eric Metaxas CPAC 2013". YouTube. March 16, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
Jump up^ "CPAC 2014 - Eric Metaxas, Author". YouTube. March 7, 2014. Retrieved July 22,2014.
Jump up^ "The Canterbury Medal Dinner". The Becket Fund. 2014. Archived from the originalon July 4, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
Jump up^ "Great Defender of Life Dinner". The Human Life Review. 2014. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
Jump up^ "Hillsdale". Hillsdale. 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
Jump up^ "Liberty University Baccalaureate Speaker Eric Metaxas Fortifies Graduates for a Life of Faith, Receives Honorary Doctorate". PRWeb. 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
Jump up^ "Easter Convocation Will Bestow Doctor of Divinity Degrees". Sewanee: The University of the South. 2015. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.

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