Where PJN Stands
EPF’s Palestine Justice Network responds to the Resignation of the Rev. Bruce Shipman
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The 4 September 2014 PJNontheGo 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…
The Stones Cry Out: Responding to the Occupation of Palestine, a conference in Los Angeles on November 7-8
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,…
Talking Across Faith Lines: Do We Really Hear One Another, and Who Sets the Standards for the Conversation?
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…
A Word from Bethlehem
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…
A Day of Remembrance: Gaza from EPF’s Chaplain the Rt. Rev’d George E. Packard
The Protest (really a mobile vigil) Against Violence in Palestine started slowly as you would expect during the dog days of August. We milled around at the Barclays Center Sports-Big Event complex waiting for the go-ahead at 4 PM. That loitering was put to good use since we made new friends, entertained…
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship and Civil Disobedience: Newland Smith reflects
On Wednesday 16 July, I was one of five people entering Boeing headquarters in Chicago at five that afternoon to conduct an act of civil disobedience. Why Boeing and why civil disobedience?
For the past two years the Anti-War Committee – Chicago has been going after Boeing for their role as the second…
A Contextual Reflection on the Assault on Gaza
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The frightening aerial war being waged by Israel against Gaza brings many recriminations and much finger pointing. Who started this? What incident set it off? The kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank? Or the earlier murders…
Disappearances, collective punishment, context: the tension of living in these days
Editor’s note: Harry Gunkel, EPF PIN member and a convener for its education work group, reflects. Harry served as a missioner with The Episcopal Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and taught at BU Nursing College in Qubeiba, spending extended periods of time on the ground in Palestine/Israel.
Those…
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu speaks to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA
A word from Archbishop Tutu:
As the Presbyterian General Assembly gathers for its biennial meeting I reach out in prayer and solidarity that the Assembly will make a strong witness for reconciliation, justice and peace. I am aware that the Assembly will consider two overtures on the confounding and…
On Easter Monday 2014
A reflection by Tina Whitehead
Easter Monday. A day to reflect on the happenings of the past week. Still such a privilege to be here in Jerusalem at such a sacred time. And this year Holy Week was even more intense and meaningful as it was the time of not just our Western Easter, but…
Reflections from the Ground in Palestine
Editor's note: We begin a recurring series featuring reflections from EPF PIN members, friends and colleagues coming out of their experiences on the ground in Palestine. Here are three.
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Adapted from a sermon preached by the Rev'd Canon Richard Toll, Advent 2013
At the time of John the Baptist,…
Peace to Jerusalem
Editor’s note: David Andrews is the Rector of Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington DE. We met on a course at St. George’s College in Jerusalem and have run into each other at the 2006 and 2012 General Conventions. He recently returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and wrote this reflection…
The Fifth Column: A Response to Michele Chabin’s Article in USA Today
Editor's Note: Religion News Service published an article on 14 March recounting the experience of a Palestinian Christian who is an Israeli Border Police officer in the South Hebron Hills. You can find it here.Based on my experiences in the Hebron District and my work and friendships in the Palestinian…
The State of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Negotiations about negotiations
When Secretary of State John Kerry began his peace initiative last summer with a goal to reach a final agreement on the two state solution by April, 2014, many informed observers were skeptical, including many members of the Palestine Justice Network. With April now…