Jim Corbett (2) (1933–2001)
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Corbett, James Albert
- Geburtstag
- 1933-10-08
- Todestag
- 2001-08-02
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Casper, Wyoming, USA
- Sterbeort
- near Benson, Arizona, USA
- Berufe
- co-founder of the Sanctuary movement
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Goatwalking von Jim Corbett
Jim Corbett has spent much of his life as a cowboy, sheep and goat herder, range analyst, and teacher of wildland symbiotics. In 1981 he began guiding political refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala through this Sonoran Desert he knows so well, helping thousands to reach safe haven. He became one of the founders of the Sanctuary Movement, the human rescue chain that is a modern day incarnation of the Underground Railroad.
The authors write as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged in a Jewish view of religion. For the prophetic faith, religion is about faithful service that is grounded in a covenant community's allegiance to the Peaceable Kingdom.
In its primary current usage, the term "sanctuary" refers to protective community with people whose basic human rights are being violated by government officials. As a declared practice, it incorporates prophetic witness into protective community; that is, in addition to protecting the violated from the state, the public practice of sanctuary holds the state accountable for its violation of human rights. . . . Sanctuary is . . . a faith practice that is part of what it means for the church to be the church. -- Jim Corbett… (mehr)
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