Bob Roberts: A conservative Christian for the Palestinians
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City Room™ – Immigration – Pastor’s Hunger Strike Reaches 31st Day.
Let’s pick up Brother Santellano’s fast and spread it, who will commit to fasting in solidarity for immigration reform? I’m in, let’s plan and spread the word.
Buffett Says ‘Capricious’ Economy Requires Charity Update1 – BusinessWeek.
This is a good move, Buffett makes some wise and true observations in this article.
“My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results,” Buffett wrote. “I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.”
“My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest,” he wrote. “Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U.S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.)”
In preparation for an Evangelical-Jewish dialogue that I’ll participate in next week in DC, I’ve been reading about the other folks who will be there and their traditions. Here’s an article on Reconstructionist Judaism that I found helpful. Just as there are many different traditions in Chiristianity (and it’s important for each of us to know a little about what tradition we’re in and how it differs and is similar to others), there are many different traditions in Judaism. This is one, what do you think of this?
What Is Reconstructionist Judaism? – Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
I’m going to play this with my Christian Ethics class this fall, sounds like a fun game!
Monopoly game for an unequal and stratified society
Palestinian Christians, internationals, Muslims, and Israeli Jews participated in this nonviolent demonstration against the wall destroying a Palestinian Christian family’s home near Bethlehem. I videoed and participated, this is part 1 of 3 (so far).
Gene Stoltzfus (1940-2010) and me in 2005.
One day in San Jose Gene and Deborah and I talked about PCPJ while Nathan and Kharese played. He was encouraging Deborah and me, and I shared with him that I really have trouble asking for, or accepting, money for PCPJ.
Gene looked at me with his smiling eyes and said, “Maybe it’s because you’re too proud, you have to be humble to accept other people’s money.”
I grinned at him and said, “And all this time I thought I couldn’t accept money because I was so humble.”
He smiled back, “Nope. It’s ’cause you’re proud. Let’s go get some ice cream.”
We then walked down the street and ate ice cream together because Gene believed in eating ice cream, in telling the truth, and in loving fully and deeply. He was a great peacemaker and justice seeker and I will be forever blessed to have been his friend.
Thank you, Gene. I love you, and I miss you.
Jewish Leader on Gaza Flotilla « PCPJ Blog.
This is a great article by Uri Avnery, the founder of Gush Shalom.