{"id":9,"date":"2007-03-14T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-03-14T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:52:12","slug":"peace-witness-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/peace-witness-for-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Witness for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">On another note, the presiding bishop of my church has asked Episcopalians to <a title=\"Presiding Bishop supports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/3577_83510_ENG_HTM.htm\" target=\"_blank\">join her in supporting<\/a> the <a title=\"Christian Peace Witness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/index.cfm?action=action.cpw&#038;item=cpw_main\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Peace Witness for Iraq<\/a>. In doing so, she joins with many, many church groups. Here they are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Adventist Peace Fellowship \u2022 American Friends Service Committee \u2022 Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America \u2022 Brethren Witness \u2022 Catholic Peace Fellowship \u2022 Christian Alliance for Progress \u2022 Christian Peacemaker Teams \u2022 Disciples Peace Fellowship \u2022 Episcopal Peace Fellowship \u2022 Every Church a Peace Church \u2022 Kairos: A Time to Speak, A Time to Act \u2022 Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center \u2022 Leadership Conference of Women Religious \u2022 Lutheran Peace Fellowship \u2022 Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns \u2022 Methodist Federation for Social Action \u2022 No2Torture \u2022 On Earth Peace \u2022 Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service \u2022 Pax Christi USA \u2022 Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship \u2022 Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA \u2022 Presbyterian Peace Fellowship \u2022 Protestants for the Common Good \u2022 Sisters of Mercy of the Americas \u2022 Sojourners\/Call to Renewal \u2022 United Church of Christ (Justice and Witness Ministries).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">I have trouble with mass witness, whether it is sponsored by my colleagues and coreligionists or by what one of my old friends has called <em><a title=\"Joe Barnhart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phil.unt.edu\/faculty\/vjeb.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Billy Graham Religion<\/a><\/em>. Still, if I were able to go to Washington on March 16th and join these good people I would go. As it is I join their common prayer for a just end to this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On another note, the presiding bishop of my church has asked Episcopalians to join her in supporting the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq. In doing so, she joins with many, many church groups. Here they are: Adventist Peace Fellowship \u2022 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/peace-witness-for-iraq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}