This Saturday ICUJP will be sponsoring a peace and justice book fair called “Cost of War, Culture of Peace” at the LA Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. I will be part of an afternoon panel with my dear Sufi Friend John…
David R. Woolley, a Friend from Minneapolis who runs a software design company, sent us the following idea for how Friends might turn the 10th anniversary of 9/11 into a national day of reconciliation: … **** … I woke up one morning last week with an idea in my…
By Erika Thorne, Managing Director, FNVW … “Shukran jazeelan!! [Thank you very much!!] “You have given us a wonderful conference. I came away with more of a sense of HOPE for peace than when I came this…
The interfaith community of California has issued a resolution against our federal government permitting the building of any new land-based nuclear power plants. So has Quaker EarthLight Witness (QEW), the national Quaker environmental organization.
The “Universal Freedom Seder”—an event bringing together Jews, Christians, and Muslims as well as those of 12 other faiths in the Los Angeles area—was organized by Ruth Broyde Sharone, film maker (“God and Allah Need to Talk”) and co-chair of…
By Rachel Stacy … Robin Mohr wrote last Wednesday about authenticity. Her simple, authentic prayer guided me into a place of wonder and so today’s word is authenticity. (See http://robinmsf.blogspot.com/) I use the word “authentic” to describe how I want to…
“The only thing that will tip the balance between planting [olives trees, symbols of peace] and uprooting is for all people, Jewish, Muslim and Christian to work together in solidarity. We must pray together. We must work together. We must continue to bring light to those…
By Anthony Manousos … This week I was profoundly moved to hear a talk by Jim Loney, who was one of the Christian Peace Team members taken hostage in Iraq along with the Quaker Tom Fox in November 2005. Tom, a martyr to our Quaker faith in pacifism, was murdered by his…
This interfaith peace event sponsored by Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (icujp.org) is the first of its kind at the LA Times Book Fair. There will be an AFSC bookstore presence, as well as Quaker children’s book author named…
By Rachel Stacy … Today’s word is surrender. Some of you know that I’m back from the Middle East. The transition has been challenging and I’ve returned to the Earlham School of Religion to complete my thesis. Since I’ve returned from Jordan much…
