The following is an excerpt from Creating a Culture of Peace’s website. Click here to see the full article. The Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, PA has been blessed to work directly with Janet Chisholm, the designer of Creating a Culture of Peace, to offer nonviolence trainings in our diocese. She was based locally for four years at…
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EPF Maryland Chapter will celebrate UN International Peace Day
Our EPF Maryland Chapter will be among those celebrating the United Nation’s Day of International Peace on September 21. Click here to learn more about this event in Salisbury, Maryland.
EPF Co-Chair on New Hampshire’s Budget Cuts
EPF co-chair Bill Exner recently wrote this powerful article for the New Hampshire Episcopal News regarding state cuts to social services benefiting the poor. We asked the troopers if they’d like to join us in a final prayer before we made it look like they threw us out. They were willing – and appreciative. Sowe…
EPF Executive Director Jackie Lynn on Gun Control
Jackie Lynn of Episcopal Peace Fellowship from Catherine Lynch on Vimeo.
War Number Three
By George Clifford Make no mistake about it. Regardless of legal issues the Obama administration and some members of Congress now debate, the United States is in fact fighting three wars: one in Afghanistan, one in Iraq, and one in Libya. In spite of the silence, and hence complicity, of most of the news media…
Accompaniment for Peace in Colombia
By Linda Eastwood Imagine yourself sitting in a simple church in North West Colombia (as I was a week or so ago), talking to about twenty members. A pastor asks for everyone who has NOT been displaced by violence to raise their hands. After a pause, you and your US colleague do so. Everyone else…
Creating a Culture of Peace’s Spiritually-Grounded Training for Veterans
A military wife and a peace activist – – – I was both at the same time! My husband’s security clearance was threatened, yet he remained supportive. With other friends in the nuclear submarine service, we spent hours discussing the Vietnam War. They wanted peace, like we did. My husband considered, but decided against, seeking…
IN MORTAL HANDS – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
By Stephanie Cooke February 11 was a very significant day this year. By chance in late 2010 I heard a religious radio program giving dozens of connections through the numbers of various Biblical verses to prove that the world would end on 2/11/11. IT DIDN’T! Good news. But the bad news is that we’re still…
Wisdom of the Elders: Bullying
On the first day of training, my colleague was late. The opening ceremony was finished–welcomes from the Minister of Education and the Minister of Local Government, the national anthem, of Trinidad and Tobago, and introductions to the participants. It was time for me to begin Day 1 of four days; the focus: bullying prevention and…
Chair’s Corner – Dr. Linda Gaither
What happens in the hearts and minds of soldiers in that split-second decision in combat to kill or not to kill, to throw the grenade or refrain, can never be forgotten or undone. In modern warfare against so-called insurgents who emerge from and disappear into crowds of civilians, the decision to kill, to pull the…
