EPF PIN member Cliff Cutler, Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, reflects on Trump’s decision declaring Jerusalem Israel’s capital. Just one month after a resolution to educate about peace in Israel/Palestine was not permitted to reach the Convention floor of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital […]
We share the nomination statement. Statement by Norwegian Parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes on Nominating the BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights for a Nobel Peace Prize: As a member of the Norwegian parliament, I proudly use my authority as an elected official to nominate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights for the Nobel […]
Abdulhadi Hantash, land surveyor and cartographer for the Palestinian Authority, is a colleague and friend of the editor. He circulates this report of the effects of the Israeli Occupation in the Hebron District (West Bank) of Palestine during 2017. While we took in reports of these things with dates and names and places last year, […]
EPF PIN member Dick Toll preached this sermon on Advent 2, 10 December 2017. We are experiencing Advent….the preparation for the coming of Jesus. We hear from John the Baptist during the time when the Roman empire was causing great unrest, torture, killing, and brutality to the people who lived throughout the region but especially […]
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 Justice Network (EPF PJN) 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 PJN 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 Justice Network (PJN) 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 […]