Thank God for the life and witness of Pope Francis! His humility, pursuit of justice, care for the marginalized, and commitment to environmental stewardship made me grateful to be a Christian. In 2018 I waited in a chapel at Geneva, Switzerland for the arrival of the pope. Church leaders from several hundred Christian traditions had…
Tag: peacemaking
Christians cannot be Crusaders
Any call for Christians to become Crusaders or to hate Muslims is as far from the gospel as we could go.
“Dead” on the sidewalk in Holy Week
(Photo by Greg Swiercz, South Bend Tribune.) On Wednesday of Holy Week I lay “dead” with others on a cold sidewalk for forty-five minutes outside the office of our Congressman Rudy Yakym in Mishawaka, Indiana. (I am the second person from the camera, in the olive jacket.) The Congressman sends out mailings saying, “Israel needs…
Peacemaking in a whirlwind of betrayal
The whirlwind appeared so suddenly, and came so swiftly toward us on the dusty road at Tel Dothan, that I scarcely had time to take the lens cap off my camera. Then the little twister was upon us, blinding our view and rattling the car. Was the spirit of Elisha—who once famously lodged at Dothan—getting…
The two Joshuas of Jericho
Anyone who grieves the loss of life through war in Syria today might also lament the slaughter that took place more than three thousand years ago at Jericho when Israelites crossed the Jordan River into Canaan. Israelites “devoted to destruction by the edge of the sword all in the city, both men and women, young…
Welcome to the Peace Pilgrim blog!
Thank you for stopping by. Take a moment to study the scene above. The background is a mural portraying main street of sixth-century Jerusalem. The foreground is busy with a scrum of modern pilgrims. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to step into that ancient street and learn about Jerusalem of 1500 years ago?…
Holy Lands Peace Pilgrim 