As we strive for justice and peace, we can learn from what each other are doing. We can share in our successes and collaborate on our challenges. Post your stories - from everyday advocacy (the little things that sometimes happen and you even don't realize they're advocacy until it's over) to parish and community efforts that you are a part of. This is the place for Episcopalians to share how we are striving for justice and peace! Take a few minutes to tell us how you've made a difference in your community. You'll be amazed at how just one story – yours – could inspire people around the world. We welcome your contribution!
Peace is very important to me and to all others in the world. We all seek to live harmoniously with others, although governments get involved with power, economics etc for well being of their peoples, to execute these values, it is the people at the grassroots who desire to be respected and a safe place to life and raise a family and have an income from a job that will provide for them. We need to respect Isralis and Palentine to raise and have families alike. To offer support of the accomplisment of this. I desired peace for myself and other so longingly i became a religious order, Third Order of the Society of St. Francis-Episcopal, so i could become part of the solution for peace! Please support all the issues that would further accomplish and extend this peace to all of mankind. Thank you. Peace be with you and your family
I just returned from dropping my niece off at the airport. She is a 2nd year med student, and will be doing a month's rotation in a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem. During the next month, she will be doing face-to-face, on the ground peace work, especially with Israeli and Palestinian women. In her backpack, she included 250 red clown noses to give out as signs of joy around the Middle East. As soon as I returned from the airport, I found the EPPN message asking me to send a letter to President Obama to encourage his continued striving for middle east peace. How could I not take a step so small when someone I love is living out that peace in the next two months?
As Christians in an increasingly violent world, we must continue to work for peace at every opportunity and at every place. Please know that I stand committed to that end, and hope that the leaders of our nations will do likewise.
A year ago, I said to anyone who would listen that I dreamed of going to South Sudan one day soon. I had been humbled and inspired by the Sudanese people and other refugees and immigrants I had met through Grace Episcopal Church as well as in my health career tutorial work and years of social justice activism. Perhaps this had sown the seeds of a personal ministry . . . one I had been seeking for sometime . . . and, something I had often prayed and reflected upon.
I walk with the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in DC in front of the Pentagon each Monday at 7am. We pray for peace and hold up signs saying "War Is Not The Answer". Come join us.
