Here’s a way congregations can celebrate 30 years of peacemaking: Remember the people and issues that have been a part of the congregation’s peacemaking ministries. Find pictures if possible. Create a display. Learn if and when and why the congregation…
Read more »Take the Countdown to Copenhagen Pledge – today! International leaders will be meeting in Copenhagen in December to create a new international agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. These…
Read more »He started with “What a Wonderful World” and closed with “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” In between, jazz pianist Harry Pickens played, led singing, offered reflections and prayed with some 100 Presbyterian peacemakers. Harry provided the program for the…
Read more »They came on foot, by light rail and in taxi cabs. The timing was close — the Peacemaking Program dinner and celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Commitment to Peacemaking lasted from right after the plenary ended until right…
Read more »This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Commitment to Peacemaking. Over 4,500 Presbyterian congregations, as well as several presbyteries and at least one synod, have affirmed this Commitment. The Commitment makes a public commitment that working for peace and…
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