This article ran in Sojourners this month. I would be interested in getting your reaction:
A Convert to Peace
A conservative Republican member of Congress talks about his journey of repentance for supporting the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Interview by Jim Wallis
A beautiful gesture of peace, connection, and good will was recently sent from the world-wide Muslim community to church leaders around the globe. Over the past three years, 138 Muslim clerics, scholars, and leaders from many different countries have written and endorsed a document called "A Common Word," which reaches out to Christians with a hand of friendship and common understanding. Christians and Muslims comprise over half the world's population, making endless war a mindless dead-end.
Life in the Reba Place Fellowship
At the beginning of the new year, Ben Lee, Andy Ross and I spent a couple days in the Chicago area with the Reba Place Fellowship, an intentional community started on Reba Place in Evanston by a group of Mennonites in the 1950's. We were hosted by Grete and Aaron Scott, friends from Hopwood/Milligan, who moved into the Reba neighborhood this past year. Aaron teaches school nearby while Grete pursues a Masters at DePaul University. They aren’t members of the Reba Place Fellowship (intentional community), but have been attending the related Reba Place Church and as they wanted to get closer to the community, they have rented space in one of the Reba houses and live with a woman from the Fellowship.
