Hi QuakerRanter friends: I’ve been busy today covering the Quaker response to the Christian Peacemakers Teams hostages. Two sites with a lot of overlapping content:
- Quaker Blog Watch page focused on the hostages
- “Nonviolence.org statement and list of responses
Both of these feature a mix of mainstream news and Quaker views on the situation. I’ll keep them updated. I’m not the only busy Friend: Chuck Fager and John Stephens have a site called Free the Captives — check it out.
It’s always interesting to see the moments that I explictly identify as a Friend on Nonviolence.org. As I saythere, it seems quite appropriate. We need to explain to the world why a Quaker and three other Christians would needlessly put themselves in such danger. This is witness time, Friends. The real deal. We’re all being tested. This is one of those times for which those endless committee meetings and boilerplate peace statements have prepared us.
It’s time to tell the world that we live in the power that “takes away the occasion for war and overcomes our fear of death” (well, or at least mutes it enough that four brave souls would travel to dangerous lands to witness our faith).
Hi Folks… for Friends and friends in the NYC nieghborhood, 15th st. Meetings M&W has proposed prayers at 7 am and 7 pm each day. We are holding a vigil at 7 pm on the evening of the 7th in the front plaza ( not the right word, but I am blanking on the word, it is not a garden… ) of the meeting house. I believe it is planed to be a candle light vigil so bring candles just in case.
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(court yard…) I must be getting old.
As Clerk of Tallahassee Monthly Meeting I can report to you that powerful prayers for those abducted continue and that they will on a scheduled basis. We have one member who has been to Iraq as a member of a CPT. Peace be with you.
Bob Henderson, Clerk
Tallahassee (FL) Monthly Meeting
Hi Bob: yes, it’s been inspiring to hear of all the vigils that have been taking place. There surely is a lot of prayer heading toward Iraq!
Hi Martin, I found a provocative piece on the CPT I thought you might add to the feed:
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2221.shtml
I sent it to you via delicious but I wasn’t sure if you checked your “for” box often (I don’t… there should be some kind of notification when you have new links).
Hi Zach: I posted that article when it first came out (the ElectronicIraq is an electronic reprint). Yes, it’s good & provocative!