The Mid-Hudson chapter of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship is sponsoring The Prince of Peace: a Discussion on Just War and Pacifism President Obama recently used the theological term – a “Just War” – in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech regarding his decision to send more troops into Afghanistan. Our program will attempt to answer the…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
EPF Chairs meet with HOB Theology Committee
On Wednesday, Jan. 13, EPF’s chair, Dr. Linda Gaither, and The Rev. Bill Exner, vice-chair, met with the House of Bishops’ Theology Committee at the Cathedral College in Washington, D.C. for a round-table discussion of the Bishops’ paper on Just War Theory in the age of terrorism. The Rt. Rev. Henry Parsley, chair of the Theology Committee,…
The Bowen Conference: Nonviolence and Faith
A Facebook friend pointed out the following conference taking place in Hendersonville, North Carolina. More information on the conference is available here. BOWEN CONFERENCE NONVIOLENCE: A FAITHFUL RESPONSE FEB. 28-MARCH 3, 2010
The Rev. Robert Two Bulls in Episcopal News Service
By Pat McCaughan [Episcopal News Service] Pop art is one way the Rev. Robert Two Bulls delivers a powerful message about persistent Native American stereotypes as well as painful chapters in church history. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_118308_ENG_HTM.htm
Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates
An EPF member in North Carolina pointed out this story from the BBC. Thank you!
Be a Peacemaker in 2010
Greetings, Peacemakers! In the waning days of 2009, archeologists have announced the excavation of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated to the time of Jesus. That dig uncovered the remains of a house in a hamlet of roughly fifty impoverished Jewish families – a house where friends or relatives of the child…
