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Al Jazeera Shows Video of CPT Hostages


While the news left me a little chilly, it was good to see the news today of a video of the Christian Peacemaker Team hostages still alive. Of course, it’s just video, but hope is what keeps people of faith going. The demands from their abductors are the same, which is expected but [...]

Undeniable Racism


It seems like every time I have conversations about Israel with more conservative Christian Friends (we tend to get those in EFCSW), they always deny the existence of a Zionist movement within evangelical Christianity, especially in Friends churches. They’ll conceed that their support for the current Israeli state comes from their belief that the [...]

Beginning to Come Together


Over the last few weeks I’ve been checking out the current crop of Quaker blogs, talking with Friends about this site and generally trying to check the pulse of this society.  What I’ve found is that everywhere I look there are people wanting to push the limits of what Quakerism has traditionally embraced.  What I [...]