Last week’s announcement in which the US declared Jerusalem Israel’s capital and Trump declared the embassy would be moved to Jerusalem in the future, has generated much writing and many public witnesses. EPF PIN member Harry Gunkel attended a rally in San Antonio TX where he heard Moureen Kaki speak out. Kaki is a Palestinian-American […]
As we prepare for General Convention 2018, we share three resolutions on Palestine passed at diocesan conventions this year. California: 27-28 October 2017 A JUST PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND Resolved, That, in light of the Diocese’s 2014 advocacy of economic pressure as a means of ending Israel’s now fifty-year occupation of Palestinian lands and […]
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN) announces a new educational resource. The Holy Land where Jesus lived today comprises the state of Israel and the Palestinian territories, and is the site of the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict”. This region is often in the headlines, but events there are little understood by many of us. […]
In 2014 EPF PIN member Jo Bronson shared a report from Usama Nicola of Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem. Jo is back on the ground and we share this update from her: I am Jo Bronson and currently teaching at the Episcopal Technological Vocational Training Center (ETVTC) in Ramallah, Palestine. I was […]
Editor’s note: Michael Kurth sits on EPF’s National Executive Council and convenes the Young Adult Network. He’s a seminarian and traveled to Israel/Palestine in March with a group of EPF PIN members and friends. He reflects on his time on the ground. In moments of summer solitude and sanctuary (of which there seems to be […]
Our friend and colleague Dick Toll preached on 30 July at Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in Portland OR. We invite you to consider how working towards the kingdom of God as Dick sets out in his sermon might move us towards that more costly discipleship as we work for justice. Sermon, July 30th, Gospel Matthew […]
The Palestine Israel Network (PIN) of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship decries the undemocratic act of the government of Israel on July 24 in barring entry to Israel by five Americans. We join interfaith partners in this condemnation, including Jewish Voice for Peace and the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church. These five travelers – […]
Kevin Antonio Smallwood is a seminarian at The School of Theology at Sewanee, T’19. He traveled to Palestine/Israel earlier this year with EPF PIN members and friends. He reflects on his time on the ground. It has been about fifteen weeks since my time in the Holy Land and while the days have passed the […]
Open Letter from The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) to the World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Movement Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. (Isa. 1:17) Background As we meet this month in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, we are still suffering from 100 years of injustice and oppression […]
EPF PIN member Harry Gunkel writes about his time in Gaza earlier this year. An early morning in March in Gaza. At the end of my three-day visit there, I am on my way to the checkpoint to return to Jerusalem. The streets are strangely, unusually quiet. It is Friday, prayer day, everything is closed, […]
As the fiftieth anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem nears, the Israeli government has intensified its efforts to criminalize the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement – BDS – which seeks, through non-violent economic pressure, to bring about a peaceful end to the occupation. In recent weeks, for example, it has […]
I once listened to a priest preach on searching for God by likening this to the search for a restaurant in an unfamiliar city: when you’re looking for a restaurant, you tend to see restaurants everywhere; if you intentionally look for God, you will see God everywhere. On this my tenth trip to Palestine (from […]
