We share a homily prepared for Friends of Sabeel North America's Keep Awake! campaign to send us through Advent. Check this link for Boyd Evans's homily. Boyd is an EPF PIN member and part of its Education work group.
We share a homily prepared for Friends of Sabeel North America's Keep Awake! campaign to send us through Advent. Check this link for Boyd Evans's homily. Boyd is an EPF PIN member and part of its Education work group.
EPF-PIN Commends CCSR on 50 Years of Service The Episcopal Church’s Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility will celebrate 50 years of advocacy in 2021. The committee was created by Executive Council in 1971 and oversaw the filing of the first ever shareholder resolution by a faith based organization. The resolution asked General Motors to withdraw […]
Antisemitism in Real Time Introduction Antisemitism is lived in real time. It unfolds in a matrix of Judaism, Zionism, Christian Zionism, Israel, white supremacy, the Palestinian narrative and its censorship. Because of this it is extremely important to know what antisemitism is, and what it is not. We are seeing how difficult it is to […]
Last week, the Steering Committee for EPF PIN voted unanimously to endorse the Palestinian Letter to Congress issued by the Invest in Justice for All Coalition. The letter, signed by dozens of Palestinian leaders in the work for justice, is meant to send a message from the Palestinian American community to the members of Congress […]
On Wednesday, September 23rd, the internet meeting platform company Zoom refused to allow San Francisco State University professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa from airing their scheduled classroom presentation entitled Whose Narratives?: Gender, Justice, and Resistance. Zionist and pro-Israel critics had objected to the planned participation of Leila Khaled, a leader in the Popular Front […]
13 August 2020 We invited EPF PIN member Cliff Cutler to follow up on FOSNA’s #CounterCUFI: Invest in Justice campaign which EPF PIN endorsed. He reviews the tenets of Christian Zionism and sets out how we might take next steps in countering CUFI. Domination or Liberation: Christian Zionism or the Jesus Movement? I met liberation […]
DEFEND FREE SPEECH & THE RIGHT TO BOYCOTT PLEASE JOIN THE MAY 19 WEBINAR OFFERED BY THE PEACE & JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CHICAGO On November 23, 2019 at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, delegates approved by unanimous voice vote Resolution G-182, Freedom of Speech and the Right […]
15 May is Nakba Day. It’s been 72 years and there is still no justice in the land. Many say the two-state solution is long dead. Others say to move ahead with annexation and then there will be one apartheid state and workers for justice can move towards a one-state solution EPF PIN member Steve […]
EPf PIN member Kathy Christison wrote this Holy Week reflection. This first appeared in the EPF email sent on Good Friday 10 April 2020. We Are the Body of Christ On a Sunday in Gaza at the start of Lent, Israeli snipers on the other side of the border fence shot a young Palestinian man […]
EPF PIN member Tom Foster traveled to Gaza in early March. One can extrapolate from his report what might be the effects of COVID-19 so long as the blockade stays in place. In early March, I was privileged to join a ten-person medical delegation to Gaza organized by the Washington state chapter of Physicians for Social […]
EPF PIN member The Rev’d E. Clifford (Cliff) Cutler traveled in Israel/Palestine last year and wrote this reflection of his time on the ground. I retired in May 2019 and took a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from Sunday, November 3 to the 16, 2019. It was a time to reflect on “retirement” which is a […]
EPF PIN member Steve France reports on a program featuring Rashid Khalidi discussing his new book. A version of this article appeared on Mondoweiss earlier this week. There was an urgency about Rashid Khalidi when the dean of Palestinian-American historians addressed a jam-packed crowd at the prestigious Politics & Prose bookstore in DC, Feb. 10. […]