From Creating a Culture of Peace As Episcopalians living at the start of the 21st Century, we can clearly identify the prophetic voice of Christ as a source of inspiration and encouragement in our own faith tradition. The Episcopal Church, and wider Anglican Communion, inspires us to be nonviolent peacemakers in all areas of our…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
HOW TO ORGANIZE AN EPF/CAMPUS CHAPLAINCY EVENT
DESCRIPTION The EPF Chapter of the Southern Tier in Ithaca, New York, has organized two cooperative peace-centered events with the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Cornell University in the last several years. The events featured a home-cooked supper (“if you feed them they will come”) immediately following the 5 pm Sunday Eucharist, with the opportunity to then…
HOW TO TEACH PEACE TO CHILDREN: A RESOURCE
Resources for Children: Institute for Peace and Justice: http://www.ipj-ppj.org/Children%20&%20Youth.htm Pledge of Nonviolence: http://www.ipj-ppj.org/Pledge%20of%20Nonviolence.html Peace Quest: Enriching the Lives of Children through pursuit of peace for all http://www.celebratingpeace.com/ Mennonite Resource: http://peace.mennolink.org/children.html Peace Resources from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America: http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Education/Pre-12/Resources/Peace-Justice.aspx Teaching Peace to Children: Lombard Mennonite Peace Center Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur1-6/pnvcur1-6.html…
Episcopal News Service Aritcle on EPF’s BDS Statement
Peace fellowship supports economic sanctions for Middle East peace Divestment strategy ‘dangerously unhelpful,’ Washington bishop says By Matthew Davies, May 12, 2010 [Episcopal News Service] The National Executive Council of Episcopal Peace Fellowship has issued a statement in support of economic sanctions and divestment strategies that it believes “can inspire a more useful dialog and…
Letter from Rifat Kassis, Kairos Palestine Coordinator
I’m writing to send thanks and warm greetings from Palestine, both to you and to your colleagues on the NEC of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. We were deeply heartened to learn of the NEC’s recent endorsement of divestment and economic/cultural boycott, and of this strong support of the principles put forth in the Kairos Document….
EPF’s Executive Council Statement on Divestment, Boycott and Economic Sanctions as a means of Nonviolent Resistance
The National Executive Council of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship voted to endorse the enclosed statement with a vote of 8 yes, 2 no and 1 abstention. NEXT STEPS HERE “In response to the ongoing cycle of violence – including Palestinian terrorist bombings and the well documented military and economic violence of the government of Israel…
Chair’s Commentary: National Executive Council’s Statement on Divestment, Boycott and Economic Sanctions as a means of Nonviolent Resistance
by Linda Gaither Background: The Episcopal Peace Fellowship [EPF] is an independent, member-funded association of Episcopalians who share a commitment to nonviolence, not only in terms of conflict management and resolution, but also effectively engaging, through critical thinking and action, the complexity of the culture of violence that predominates in our world today. Our mission…
Un Nuevo Espacio para la Justicia: Reflexiones sobre Honduras
An English version of this article is available here. Garrett Fitzgerald es un estudiante de Segundo año de la Maestría en Estudios Teológicos y candidato en la Escuela Teológica de Harvard, su concentración es la compleja relación entre religión, derechos humanos y los movimientos por la paz y la justicia social. La sesión de Enero…
Rabbi Lerner’s House Attacked (Tikkun)
From Tikkun: Berkeley, Ca. May 3, 2010 Release date: May 4, 2010 Berkeley police today confirmed that the attack on Rabbi Lerner’s home late Sunday May 2nd or early morning Monday, May 3rd was in fact a crime and was being investigated. The attackers used a powerful form of glue to attach posters to his…
New Delegation to Iran Scheduled 11/5-20/10
Apply today to join FOR’s November 2010 delegation to Iran Contact Iran Action Group Convener Sr. Ellen Francis srellenfrancis@yahoo.com From Fellowship of Reconciliation: FOR has continued to send peace missions to Iran to build people-to-people relationships between the peoples of the U.S. and of Iran, and to develop a community of grassroots civilian diplomats in…
