Activism

Laurel Mathewson 7-01-2007

1) Organize. If a presidential candidate is coming your way, ask him or her: How are we going to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050? What's your plan?

2) Organize.

What congregations can do to restore creation.

Ambassadors. I'm a sometimes preacher, these days a Methodist holding forth among an Episcopal congregation in Detroit.

There were dozens of people in a bleak group. It's a very specific look, one you will find only outside the Baghdad morgue.

Bob Francis 6-01-2007

I WATCHED FOR MONTHS as many of my coworkers devoted themselves to preparation for the Christian Peace Witness, including weeks of negotiation for the civil disobedience.

Helen LaKelly Hunt 6-01-2007

Rollercoaster feelings all around began with the storming weather that day. While it kept many away, for those gathered in the National Cathedral it seemed to enhance the energy of the evening.

Jim King 6-01-2007

Walking beside me was our 15-year-old son, David, and Odess Monsanje, from Zambia, who is living with us for a year.

Laurel Mathewson 6-01-2007

As we stepped out of the cathedral, wind blew snow from the rooftops, past the lit windows of the Cotswold-like cottage beside the cathedral.

Larisa Friesen 6-01-2007

From my seat in the balcony in the National Cathedral, I realized that the crowd I saw numbered nearly the same as the number of American soldiers who had fallen in the last four years.

Phyllis Taylor 6-01-2007

As a Jewish person in this Christian peace witness, I felt affirmed and welcomed by the other participants.

Amy Yarnell 6-01-2007

The depth of my sorrow for the loss of life on all sides seems beyond expression.

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
Laurel Mathewson 6-01-2007
The better half of peacemaking.
The Editors 6-01-2007
Christians step out against the war.
As part of a global movement marking the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq, thousands of demonstrators holding burning torches formed a peace sign at the Heroes' Square in Budapest, Hungary.
Raphael G. Warnock 6-01-2007

Whenever there are billions of dollars and then billions more available to bomb Baghdad, but never enough to rebuild New Orleans, an American city, parts of which still look like a Third World coun

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-01-2007

• Write your members of Congress to demand that they not renew the president's "fast track" authority on trade agreements, which ties Congress's hands by allowing it only to approv

Laurel Mathewson 5-01-2007

1) As a citizen:
Join the trade justice movement
Go to the "get involved" or "take action" links on the following Web sites:

  • U.S.
Rose Marie Berger 4-01-2007
Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the "Beyond Vietnam" speech, what does it mean for America today? A conversation with historian and scholar Vincent G. Harding.
The ongoing truth of King's vision.