There was something about the Army Experience Center that was strangely familiar. It reminded me of church youth group growing up. Only with LOTS of electronic equipment. In high school, the youth groups I attended had couches, music, games, and engaging youth leaders. The Army Experience was just like it! The staff were friendly and cool, inviting kids (and [...]
Thoughts from Mikey J.
The Army Experience Center is all wrong.
First, the presence of video games and children running around really upset me and made me realize what the Army is willing to do to continue to feed it’s machine.
Secondly, while working under the guise of “experience what it’s really like” the Experience center is just as subversive and manipulative [...]
Jane Clinton, the Shalom House Guidance Team leader, shares her thoughts about being at the Experience Center on Saturday.
The Army Experience Center made me feel a bit overwhelmed for the teenagers who will experience it. It’s sexy! It’s modern! It’s cool! Friendly, smooth, tough guys (mostly, but some women too) are there to make you [...]
This week we will have some guest writers on the SH Blog. First we welcome a reflection from Josiah Lash, friend and fellow peacemaker.
On Saturday, a group of 18 friends and neighbors, mostly from Circle of Hope, went to the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall. It was an educational trip to quietly observe [...]
JOIN HEEDING GOD’S CALL ON SATURDAY
as we raise our voices in anguish and anger and prayer
Prayer Vigil and Rally
Saturday, February 20
12 noon to 1 PM
as we begin a weekly witness
in front of The Shooter Shop, 2001 E. Allegheny Ave, Phila.
This week we consider the most prominent armed conflict the US is involved in currently: Afghanistan.
The news this week is that NATO and Allied forces are preparing for the largest offensive in Afghanistan since 2001. In reading the news on this development I continued to question the ways world leaders choose to exert and maintain [...]
Here is a post from Rod White’s blog today. Rod is a Shalom House Guidance Team member and pastor of Circle of Hope, Broad and Washington.
I had the shocking feeling yesterday that I might be the proverbial frog in the kettle. I am not sure who discovered the facts behind that proverb (some [...]
In 1961, black and white college students set out to desegregate interstate travel by riding buses in the Jim Crow south. Committed to nonviolent struggle, they met angry, violent white mobs without responding in kind and eventually succeeded in desegregating buses and bus stations. To mark the 50th anniversary of these rides, filmaker Stanley Nelson, [...]