Thanks to EPF PIN member Harry Gunkel for this update. The Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN) recently gathered in retreat to chart its course for the remainder of the 2018-2021 triennium. For three days, approximately 30 PIN members worked together to determine organization goals and how best to operate to achieve them, […]
We have just returned from a short and unusual trip to Palestine, not leading a large group as in the past but traveling with our son and 3 grandchildren. Our oldest grandson is now working for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund in Ramallah, so this was opportunity to share his and our experiences of Palestine. […]
At really successful art openings the crush of excited people makes it hard to check out the art. Similarly, the annual "Israel Lobby and American Policy" conference in DC was so jammed with fascinating people from all over who are working to break Israel's death grip on Palestine and on U.S. policy that it was […]
Homily, PIN Retreat Chicago, March 17, 2019, by Kathy Christison I must say, this really is preaching to the choir! We’ve been hearing a lot these last few days about love, because this is what the bishops at their spring meeting emphasized. I’d also like to talk about love—meaning God’s love for all people equally—and also about […]
EPF PIN activities coordinator Harry Gunkel writes about funding cuts to USAID programs in Palestine. When USAID completes a construction project or funds the acquisition of new equipment, for example at a hospital, it places a plaque stating that the work is “a gift of the American people”. During the past year, by actions of […]
Last week we lifted up the Ecumenical Statement on policy toward Israel and Palestine that was sent to members of Congress and the White House and we encouraged readers to take their own actions by also sending the statement to their representatives. Today, we call readers' attention to the unfortunate absence of the Episcopal Church from […]
Kairos Palestine recently held a 9th anniversary celebration and gathering in Bethlehem. Read the statement coming out of the gathering here. We celebrate it with this essay by EPF PIN member Kathy Christison: The weekly London Economist recently ran an article more or less pronouncing the death of Liberation Theology in Latin America and, by […]
D038 Civil Rights and Equality for All in Israel [The House of Bishops declined to concur on this resolution] My name is Marcelle and I am from Bethlehem in Palestine. As a Palestinian Christian, I often feel forgotten by my international Christian family. Please visit our beautiful historic and ancient stones and visit us, the […]
Thanks to EPF PIN member Steve France for attending and reporting on this program. It seemed maybe it was a dark joke when Yousef Bashir, a young Gazan, said Israel’s leaders sometimes bomb Gaza out of “boredom.” He was talking to an audience at the Foundation for Middle East Peace about the trauma of growing […]
C038 Safeguard the Rights of Palestinian Children and C035 Due Process for Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts [C038 is church policy.] Hello my name is Jennifer Bing and I work for the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago where our offices are located at Grace Episcopal Church. I know many of you are mothers […]
In the Opening Eucharist of the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry called the worshippers present to remember Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bishop Curry invoked the German theologian as exemplar of the cost of discipleship, of the sometimes near insuperable difficulty of living into the words of Jesus, not just reciting them. […]
Note: For those wanting to view the texts of the resolutions go here: https://www.vbinder.net/resolutions?house=hd&lang=en&v=524254 and plug in the resolution number in ‘Find by Resolution Number’ and hit ‘Search’. B003 On the Status of Jerusalem: affirm Jerusalem as shared capital of State of Israel and future Palestinian State; support respect for civil rights & religious interests […]
