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Posts By: Carl Horton
April 12, 2016
Resistance to the Occupation and Human Rights Work Among Israelis (These blog entries provide brief reports and insights from our conference in Israel and Palestine. They are written by our participants and are neither comprehensive nor in depth reports, but simply glimpses into the amazing experiences we are having together.) We had the privilege of… Read more »
April 11, 2016
Visits to the Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Western Wall and the Wojoud Cultural Center (These blog entries provide brief reports and insights from our conference in Israel and Palestine. They are written by our participants and are neither comprehensive nor in depth reports, but simply glimpses into the amazing experiences we are having… Read more »
April 10, 2016
(These blog entries provide brief reports and insights from our conference in Israel and Palestine. They are written by our participants and are neither comprehensive nor in depth reports, but simply glimpses into the amazing experiences we are having together.) Thursday was a full day. In addition to visiting the Temple Mount first thing in… Read more »
April 9, 2016
(These blog entries provide brief reports and insights from our conference in Israel and Palestine. They are written by our participants and are neither comprehensive nor in depth reports, but simply glimpses into the amazing experiences we are having together.) Wednesday, April 6th – Arrival in Jerusalem Everyone arrived safely in Jerusalem by dinnertime on… Read more »
April 8, 2016
Greetings from the Mosaic of Peace Conference in Israel and Palestine. The brief blog entries you will see over the coming days provide brief reports and insights from our conference in Israel and Palestine. They are written by our participants and are neither comprehensive nor in depth reports, but the first opportunity we have to… Read more »
October 1, 2015
It happened again today. This was the 45th shooting at a school in 2015, and the 142nd shooting since Sandy Hook. As we – the congregations and members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) – prepare to gather around a wide table this World Communion Sunday and to receive the Peace and Global Witness Offering, may… Read more »
November 19, 2014
Reflections from the Peacemaking Travel Study Seminar to South Africa Listening to and hearing voices that may otherwise be unheard is the experience of those who are called to ministry. Often those voices end up beating in our eardrums and actually touching our own hearts and we too are transformed in our listening and hearing…. Read more »
November 18, 2014
The Peacemaking Program’s Travel Study Seminar to South Africa The following was written on Friday, November 7 while in Johannesburg, South Africa A system, Apartheid, had a nation divided black from white. Nelson Mandela, a hero for freedom and forgiveness, draws me from the largest city in the United States to the largest in South… Read more »
November 14, 2014
Reflections from the Peacemaking Travel Study Seminar to South Africa I am not sure exactly how one describes what we have experienced thus far, and then especially on Monday. One of the group described the experience as “whiplash”, and the more I sit with the idea, the more I realize that the analogy is very… Read more »
November 13, 2014
Reflections from the Peacemaking Travel Study Seminar to South Africa Following the end of Apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as President in 1994, South Africa established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The TRC was a unique three-part Commission with a mandate “to establish a complete picture of the apartheid past (1948-1994), to facilitate… Read more »
