Warren Wong sent this prayer and says, "This was the prayer offered by Scott Pomerenk, chaplain for California's General Convention deputation. Many felt this help set the tone and open hearts during our deliberation and vote last month." Lord, your servants Abraham and Sarah showed hospitality to your messengers in the desert. May we be […]
EPF PIN member Maurine Tobin of Maine writes about Breaking A Generation - The Israeli Occupation: Its Damage to Palestinian Children, Its Cost to Israeli Children Sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America and Tree of Life Educational Fund, this powerful conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 1 addressed from many angles the trauma inflicted […]
The Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii held its diocesan convention 24-25 October 2014 at which they considered a resolution one of whose resolves stated: recognizing our Church’s investments in certain companies may be supporting the infrastructure of the Occupation, we embrace Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s observation that the powerful will only come to the negotiating table if […]
October 2014 In a Middle East region that continues to suffer from the consequences of violence, the people of Palestine continue to live under occupation and in exile. Palestinian Christians, the descendants of the first Christians, are an integral part of the Palestinian people, continue to suffer, just like our Palestinian Muslim and Samaritan brothers […]
Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide: An Invitation to Read and Study Members of the EPF PIN education work group recently spent five months reviewing the congregational study guide Zionism Unsettled, published by the Presbyterians’ Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN). Through biweekly conference calls, the group held lengthy discussions of its content, the controversy […]
October 2014 Seven weeks of war between Israel and Hamas has left Gaza in ruins. “The scale of damage…is unprecedented since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967,” according to a UN report, which continues, “All governorates in Gaza witnessed extensive aerial bombardment, naval shelling and artillery fire, resulting in the widespread loss […]
One of the newest and fastest-growing campaigns within the BDS movement is "Block the Boat," a campaign targeting the ports across the United States where the Israeli-owned shipping line, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, docks to unload its goods. As the new EPF Palestine Israel Network LA chapter in Southern California launches, some of its […]
EPF PIN member Harry Gunkel reflects on health care in Palestine. The assault and invasion of Gaza this summer, the third in five years, put Gaza into the headlines once again. But more often than not in American media reports, the ‘story’ was not the enduring occupation and siege of the West Bank and Gaza […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 4 September 2014 PINontheGo featured 'Talking Across Faith Lines: Do We Really Hear One Another and Who Sets the Standards for the Conversation?' It featured David Good's reflection on being accused of being anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic and raised up Bruce Shipman's letter to the editor of the NYT responding to […]
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship is celebrating its 75th birthday by sponsoring The Stones Cry Out: Responding to the Occupation of Palestine, a conference in Los Angeles on November 7-8. Featured speakers include Dr. Jonathan Kuttab, a human rights lawyer in Israel and Palestine, Rev. Sandra Olewine, former United Methodist Liaison to Jerusalem, and Shakeel […]
Editor’s Note: Desmond Tutu’s ‘My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine’ published in Haaretz on 14 August 2014 prompted David Good to reflect on the work of the Tree of Life Educational Fund for which he serves as chair of the Board of Directors. This article reminds me of […]
Editor’s note: On 26 August news of an open-ended ceasefire erupted. Earlier in the week, EPF PIN member Peggy Bronson shared an update from Usama Nicola, Citizens’ Diplomacy Project Coordinator at Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem, and Usama graciously consented to share it with the PIN community. Many of you have likely […]
