International Nonviolence Conference
December 6, 2005
I wish I was going to be in Bethlehem this Christmas because Holy Land Trust (the organization I worked with this summer) is hosting an International Nonviolence Conference entitled “Celebrating Nonviolent Resistance.” It is going to be in Bethlehem, Palestine this December 27-30th. Some of the speakers will be:
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen): President of the [...]
Tags: Bethlehem, Israel, Non-Violence, Palestine, Peace
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Progressive Christianity: Vol 7
November 30, 2005
This is in continuation to a series that I began last spring. Here are links to the rest of the posts: Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, Point 4, Point 5, Point 6.
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work [...]
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Sabeel Conference Overview
February 8, 2005
Most of you know I spent the past weekend down at Columbia Theological Seminary at a SABEEL Conference. Sabeel is an ecumenical group based in Jerusalem to help work towards the liberation of the Palestinians, the end of Israeli occupation and towards a just peace in Palestine-Israel for all people. It is a group that [...]
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A Veteran for Peace
November 11, 2004
“Speak little, listen much. Walk tall and don’t carry a stick at all.”
Keith E. Gingrich
Six years ago today, my uncle Keith Gingrich died after battling pancreatic cancer for almost one year. Keith worked for many years in Sudan with the Mennonite Central Committee, as well as the Washington (D.C.) office. While he died on Veteran’s [...]
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U.S. Army comes to Princeton
November 11, 2004
Chaplain (Major) John Kiser (U.S. Army) spoke in Chapel this morning at Princeton. One of the first things he said was that the pacifists in the group normally don’t know how to respond to man or woman in uniform preaching, which is true. For those of you who don’t know, my mother comes from a [...]
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
