Welcome to the new on-line format of Episcopal
Peace Witness! Many will be reading these words on-line and others will have
received a print version through the mail. This electronic format is part of
our “communications revolution” at EPF. As part of this revolution, our
membership now receives timely monthly bulletins via e-mail, with periodic
print versions mailed to those not yet online. Our web-site is a key element in
our communications plan. Have you visited www.epfnational.org recently? Need an EPF
banner for a local event? Shop our on-line store! All of these communications
tools are designed to help EPF do what it is organized to do: Connect, Pray,
Act for peace with justice. And within the next few months we will be making even more improvements.
In this first on-line edition, you will notice
features both familiar and new. One new feature is our centerfold Journal
section, designed for in-depth coverage of a chosen theme. The theme of this
edition is “Women on the Frontiers of Peacemaking: Past, Present and Future.”
We feature the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference in
Our theme of women peacemakers appears throughout this issue in our new regular features that you can expect in each edition: Wisdom of the Elders, A Theologian Speaks, View from the Monastery, Everyday Peacemaking, Fresh Perspectives. You will also find, from time to time, material of general interest such as book reviews, liturgical resources, chapter reports, updates on Creating a Culture of Peace, etc. We hope you will find this to be a rich and useful resource. Write to us with your reactions and suggestions for a user-friendly and effective communications network for our Fellowship.
Linda Gaither, Vice Chair of EPF's National Executive Council and Chair of Communications.
Hear the Voice of Women Peacemakers!
Amy Coultas: EPF’s Young Adult delegate to the TEAM conference in
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Amy Coultas at TEAM Africa (Jun 12, 2007) Amy Real Coultas is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and is
vicar of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Shelbyville, KY and Episcopal Campus
Minister at the University of Louisville -- both partnered with Hannah
Ministries in Byumba, Rwanda. Learn more about that work at helpinghannah. org. Amy is a member
of the National Executive Council of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and is
particularly interested in how the work of creating a culture of peace is
related to global development. For reflections on the TEAM Conference, visit
Amy’s blog: www.thoughtwordanddeed.
blogspot.com. Everyday Peacemaking by Madeleine Trichel (Jun 12, 2007) Trichel has practiced being peace and teaching peace for over 40 years, recently retired as Executive Director of the Interfaith Peace Center in Columbus, Ohio (see additional article about Madeleine as EPF Sayer Honoree). Jan Burroughs with the UN Commission on the Status of Women (Jun 18, 2007) Janice Burroughs is co-convener of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship for her diocese and a contact for information concerning the Millennium Development Goals. She recently attended the 51st UNCSW meeting as a delegate with the Anglican Consultative Council and serves on the steering committee for the 2007 delegation. Poetry of Jean Shinoda Bolen (Jun 18, 2007) Distinguished LIfe Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, former board member of the Ms. Foundation for women, and the author of multiple books. See http://jeanbolen.com. Marion Franz: Champion of War Tax Resisters (Jun 18, 2007) Robert Macfarlane, now living in the diocese of Virginia, retired Priest from the Diocese of Chicago, is an EPF representative on the NCPTF Board http://peacetaxfund.org. Wisdom of the Elders (Jun 18, 2007) Janet Chisholm became
an activist in high school in 1956. She
has offered national leadership to EPF, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the
nonviolence training program “Creating a Culture of Peace,” and the Prophetic Voice: A Diaconal Gift to the Church (Jun 18, 2007) Susanne Watson Epting, a deacon and director of the North American Association for the Diaconate, and is currently working with the Office for Women’s Ministries as Editor of the Beijing Circles Resource Booklet, which addresses Millennium Development Goal #3 through the lens of the Beijing Platform for Action. She has also facilitated a course on the Prophetic Voice of the Deacon through the Center for Anglican Life and Learning at CDSP.) NAAD ADDRESS: Remembering Georgia Harkness (Jun 18, 2007) Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at A View from the Monastery (Jun 18, 2007) Sister Sophia Woods lives at the Convent of Christian Peace Witness for Iraq March 16th (Jun 18, 2007) Allison Sandlin Liles is a priest currently as . She is a new member of EPF’s National Executive Council and participated in EPF Young Adult Presence at General Convention in June 2006. Book Review: Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope (Jun 18, 2007) Reviewed by Barbara
Mraz, deacon, Inconvenient Peacemaking and Dorothy Day (Jun 18, 2007) Gary is the new Chair of the National Executive Council, Rector of St. Luke’s Church in Long Beach, California, Deputy to General Convention, and author of Becoming Bridges: The Spirit and Practice of Diversity. Download the Fall 2007 Issue of EPW (Nov 28, 2007) Click here for the PDF |