May 29, 2019
Peace Out: Week Twenty

Weekly Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Twenty Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels heard Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call to go to Alabama to help register people to vote. Daniels was martyred on August 20, 1965 in Hayneville, AL, when he stepped in front of a loaded shotgun to save the life of […]

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May 22, 2019
Peace Out: Week Nineteen

Peace Out: Week Nineteen Festive floral wall mural at Adelante Alabama Worker Center in Hoover, Alabama www.adelantealabama.org These saints are empowering immigrant workers to deal with wage theft and abusive landlords, among much else. Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Luke 6:20 There's no place like home! I […]

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May 16, 2019
Peace Out: Week Eighteen

Peace Out: Week Eighteen Banner outside new Peace Partner Parish, Calvary Episcopal Church- Memphis, TN Loving God, make us instruments of your peace. This week we had inspiring visits with Peace Partner Parishes St. Michael's in Little Rock, AR and Calvary in Memphis, TN en route to our son, Tate's, graduation from Vanderbilt in Nashville. […]

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May 8, 2019
Peace Out: Weeks Sixteen and Seventeen

Peace Out: Week Seventeen COLUMBINE REMEMBRANCE Those who walk uprightly enter into peace. Isaiah 57:1-2 (From the inscription on the memorial for Isaiah Emon Shoels, murdered by teenaged gunmen at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.) The following reflection is offered by Rev. Bob Davidson, EPF National Executive Committee Chair, and primary organizer of […]

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April 24, 2019
Peace Out: Week Fifteen

Week Fifteen Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Fifteen Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! WE ARE COLUMBINE Steven and I have been in Denver since Friday afternoon. We took the opportunity to attend the memorial service for the victims of the shootings at Columbine High School twenty years ago which […]

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April 17, 2019
Peace Out: Week Fourteen

Week Fourteen Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Fourteen Black Cross with Red Sky by Georgia O'Keeffe evokes Good Friday Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. James 3:18 This beautiful mosaic, tiled by members of St. Bede's, Santa Fe, NM, is an exquisite addition to their newly renovated sanctuary. Lovelier still […]

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April 10, 2019
Peace Out: Week Thirteen

Week Thirteen Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Thirteen April Fool's Day snow just west of Albuquerque How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!" Isaiah 52:7 Come to Columbine for our […]

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April 3, 2019
Peace Out: Week Twelve

Week Twelve Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Twelve In the Name of Love "At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love." Quote by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as imagined by a fifth grader in Dallas, Texas, displayed on the wall near the Texas Book Depository Building in Dallas, from […]

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March 27, 2019
Peace Out: Week Eleven

Week Eleven Update from Melanie Peace Out: Week Eleven The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace. Pslam 29:11 GRAND GRACE It is impossible for me to look onto the majesty of the Grand Canyon without remembering a sermon Rev. Francis X. Walter, former rector of St. Andrew's-Birmingham, Alabama, […]

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