Wednesday, December 17, 2014
EPF Statement Regarding Torture Report
The national office of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship has issued a statement concerning the recently released torture report. Read more...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
March for Justice this Saturday
We received this notice:
"The March for Justice will begin this Saturday, 1:00 p.m., at Jackson Park and, by sidewalk, move through town to Washington Park. The idea is to promote peacemaking, collaboration, communication, and sharing as well as helping folks to form a constructive response to the happenings in Ferguson, Cleveland, NYC, and other places in the U.S. They are asking marchers to show up at 12:30 p.m. in order to get introduced to one another and to explain the ground rules for the walk. There will be speakers at either end of the walk."
Members of the Dubuque-Area Episcopal Peace and Justice Fellowship will be attending.
"The March for Justice will begin this Saturday, 1:00 p.m., at Jackson Park and, by sidewalk, move through town to Washington Park. The idea is to promote peacemaking, collaboration, communication, and sharing as well as helping folks to form a constructive response to the happenings in Ferguson, Cleveland, NYC, and other places in the U.S. They are asking marchers to show up at 12:30 p.m. in order to get introduced to one another and to explain the ground rules for the walk. There will be speakers at either end of the walk."
Members of the Dubuque-Area Episcopal Peace and Justice Fellowship will be attending.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Demonstration in Washington Park: Today at 4pm
Members of the Dubuque-Area Episcopal Peace & Justice Fellowship will be joining Dubuque Peace & Justice and others in Washington Park at 4:00 pm today. The purpose of this social action is to stand in solidarity with those in other cities (e.g., New York) who are protesting what appears to be a trend of excessive use of force against black men.
This is a concern that has the potential to span the normal liberal-conservative political divide. As evidence of this, it is worth considering the words of Russell Moore, the conservative evangelical president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. His remarks on Eric Garner include the following:
"... a government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice. ... It's time for us in Christian churches to not just talk about the gospel but live out the gospel by tearing down these dividing walls not only by learning and listening to one another but also by standing up and speaking out for one another." (Link)
And in relation to the Ferguson decision he remarked: "In the public arena, we ought to recognize that it is empirically true that African-American men are more likely, by virtually every measure, to be arrested, sentenced, executed, or murdered than their white peers. We cannot shrug that off with apathy." (Link)
This is a concern that has the potential to span the normal liberal-conservative political divide. As evidence of this, it is worth considering the words of Russell Moore, the conservative evangelical president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. His remarks on Eric Garner include the following:
"... a government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice. ... It's time for us in Christian churches to not just talk about the gospel but live out the gospel by tearing down these dividing walls not only by learning and listening to one another but also by standing up and speaking out for one another." (Link)
And in relation to the Ferguson decision he remarked: "In the public arena, we ought to recognize that it is empirically true that African-American men are more likely, by virtually every measure, to be arrested, sentenced, executed, or murdered than their white peers. We cannot shrug that off with apathy." (Link)
Friday, December 5, 2014
Pastoral Letter from Bishop Scarfe
Please consider reading Bishop Scarfe's pastoral letter concerning the events in Ferguson, MO. Click here to read.
Meeting this Sunday
The Dubuque-Area Episcopal Peace & Justice Fellowship will be meeting this Sunday after church to discuss and begin pursuing a response to the ongoing national conversation and demonstrations concerning the use of lethal force against unarmed black men, such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
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