Creating a Culture of Peace (TM)

12/15/2025

Building strong
communities IS
Possible

Justice IS
Possible

Peacemaking IS
Possible

Do you want to replace violence with peace?
At home, in our community, across our country and around the world?
Did you know that you have the power?
A program on the principles and practices of active nonviolence can help us discover our own power to change and teaches nonviolence skills and action planning.
A training program is available-
Creating a Culture of Peace offers training to schools, civic organizations, veterans, congregations, and other groups seeking peaceful personal and social change
It is coming to our community
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
January 9-11, 2026

• sharing wisdom
• practicing skills
• analyzing social change
• building solidarity
• planning projects
• valuing diversity

community-based training for
generating nonviolent power
January 9-11, 2026
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
Tucson, Arizona

For information contact Daniel Petersen-Snyder: [email protected]

03/08/2025

JOB OPENING!
Berkeley, CA, Episcopsl Church

My progressive Episcopal church is hiring a part time associate for welcome and kinship. Details below. Spread the word!

Associate for Welcome and Kinship at All Souls Parish (https://www.allsoulsparish.org/). Our community is committed to the welcome of strangers, inclusion of spiritual inquirers from every background, and the calling of all Christians to be the body of Christ in the world. See the job posting here:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64517c07dbc9313730e5ad29/t/67b67e66d084343403a6bf65/1740013159021/Job+Description+Associate+for+Welcome+%26+Kinship.FINAL+UPDATE.2.17.25.pdf Salary and benefits are explained, plus application process. Help us get the word out! Please share with your friends and networks. Applications due March 21.

03/04/2025

Read more here.

03/13/2024

Here's an article by Chris Hedges that I wish would make it into mainstream news feeds.

Aaron Bushnell. He died for our sins.

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” he said calmly in his video as he walked to the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

Young men and women sign up for the military for many reasons, but starving, bombing and killing women and children is usually not amongst them. Shouldn’t, in a just world, the U.S. fleet break the Israeli blockade of Gaza to provide food, shelter and medicine? Shouldn’t U.S. warplanes impose a no fly zone over Gaza to halt the saturation bombing? Shouldn’t Israel be issued an ultimatum to withdraw its forces from Gaza? Shouldn’t the weapons shipments, billions in military aid and intelligence provided to Israel, be halted? Shouldn’t those who commit genocide, as well as those who support genocide, be held accountable?

These simple questions are the ones Bushnell’s death forces us to confront.

“Many of us like to ask ourselves,” he posted shortly before his su***de, “‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

The coalition forces intervened in northern Iraq in 1991 to protect the Kurds following the first Gulf War. The suffering of the Kurds was extensive, but dwarfed by the genocide in Gaza. A no-fly zone for the Iraqi air force was imposed. The Iraqi military was pushed out of the northern Kurdish areas. Humanitarian aid saved Kurds from starvation, infectious diseases and death from exposure.

But that was another time, another war. Genocide is evil when it is carried out by our enemies. It is defended and sustained when carried out by our allies.

10/02/2023

Be it protests or youth-led movements, student activism has long been used to bring about social and political change.

02/13/2023