PEACEMEALS: Golfstown, NH: a project encouraged by the local Episcopal Peace Fellowship Chapter. Peacemeals – Building personal nonviolence skills, enjoying good company, taking nonviolent action for peace and justice locally. (St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Goffstown, New Hampshire.) For more information, contact the Rev. Bill Exner: exner@comcast.net Basic info: + Gun violence in US today accounts…
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9/11 Resources from Vicki Garvey
Not only will we mark the 10th anniversary this year, but we do so on the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 19 already provides us with quite helpful propers, but I thought some of you might be interested in some other resources. The internet has a lot, as you might imagine and although I have…
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: Peace Gardens
by Janet Chisholm, Creating a Culture of Peace Executive Director and Past Chair of EPF “We call it the peace garden because well (healthy)-fed people are happier and naturally peaceful!” – Dave Patterson, Past President, Veterans for Peace, San Diego. Older and younger vets came together in San Diego with community allies for a weekend…
Film Explores Human Rights in El Salvador
by Mark Moring at Christianity Today’s Entertainment Blog Return to El Salvador, narrated by Martin Sheen, explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The 12-year conflict (from 1980 to 1992) killed over 75,000 people and displaced nearly one-fifth of the population. the documentary brings the struggles of this beleaguered country back into view and…
Ethical Musings on the Libyan No-Fly Zone
Acting in response to a United Nations authorizing resolution, the United States, along with some of its NATO allies and France, established a Libyan no-fly zone. The allies have succeeded in implementing the no-fly zone as well as enabling Libyan rebels to retake some of the ground they can initially captured and then lost to…
Taylor Branch Says Nonviolence: An Embarassment
March 20, 2011|By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun Nonviolence, a potent force in the 1960s fight for civil rights, has become an “embarrassment, an instrument of the weak,” lamented Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch. Seated in a wing chair Sunday afternoon in the chancel of First and Franklin Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon, the author…
In 1898, Satisfying A National Appetite For War
A Book Review from NPR.org Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 Spanish-American War. But he did so, he says, because of similarities he perceived between the way America entered…
Historian Taylor Branch laments downfall of nonviolence
By Jacques Kelly of the Baltimore Sun. Click here to read the rest of the article. Nonviolence, a potent force in the 1960s fight for civil rights, has become an “embarrassment, an instrument of the weak,” lamented Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch. Seated in a wing chair Sunday afternoon in the chancel of First and Franklin…
Respect for Marriage Act
Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal DOMA Introduced in U.S. House and Senate WASHINGTON – March 16 – The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauds the introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act, landmark legislation to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin…
