Does war ever end?

Phone-in conversation follow-up for May 29, 2003 call

To inform and equip Mennonites and others to answer nagging post-war questions as we re-examine our faith

Speakers on this call-in conference phone call were:  

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Peace Projects
Mennonite Church USA Executive Board Office
PO Box 347
Newton KS 67114-0347

  Did God call you to go with Christian Peacemaker Teams to Iraq? Contact Claire Evans for more information:

  Christian Citizenship Sunday for Mennonite Church USA is July 6. Check the home page and the NEW! page the beginning of June for resources to help your congregation explore this year's theme:

Life in the Superpower: then and now Jesus lived in the post powerful country on earth. So do we. What does Jesus have to say to us about our relationship to government?

  Want to discuss ideas you heard? Join our e-mail discussion list!

  Read the closing prayer from Susan Mark Landis.

Richard Deats’ editorial of the May/June 2003 issue of Fellowship http://www.forusa.org/Fellowship/default.html

Northern Virginia Mennonite Church, in Fairfax
http://www.nvmc.net/

Everett Thomas’ April 1 editorial in The Mennonite
http://www.themennonite.org/php/magazine.current.php?mag_id=49&Submit2=Go%21

Ron Sider is a Mennonite and executive director of Evangelicals for Social Action . http://www.esa-online.org/

Jim Wallis , editor of Sojourners magazine, in last week’s SOJO NET editorial
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=052103

Threatened by Resurrection by Jim S. Amstutz, 2002
http://www.mennolink.com/jimsamstutz.html

We quoted some articles found in Mennonite Weekly Review:
http://www.mennoweekly.org/

Books

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict , by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall, St. Martin's Press, 2001.

An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics , by Donald Shriver, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders: A Recurrent Vision , by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Thomas Weber, U. of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future , by Michael N. Nagler, Berkeley Hills Books, 2001.

There Are Real Alternatives, Gene Sharp, The Albert Einstein Institute.

War is the Force that gives us Meaning , by Chris Hedges, Public Affairs, 2002.

The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God, by Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, 2002.

Links

• Links about unexploded ordnance in Iraq
  www.mcc.org/clusterbomb
  Go to cluster bombs in Iraq, and click on more information. Follow links to other sites.

• Transcript of Nightline Show, September 13, 1991
  How U.S. Arms and Technology were Transferred to Iraq
  http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1991/091391.htm

• www.news.google.com
  Search for "cluster bomb" in the news section. Almost all the recent entries are from Iraq.

Books

The Earth Shall Weep, A History of Native America , James Wilson
From the Publisher

The Earth Shall Weep is a book with a pioneering approach that sets it apart from any history now on the market. Drawing not only on historical sources but also on ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and his own extensive research in Native American communities, James Wilson sets out to make the Indian perspective on the past and the present accessible to a broad audience. He charts the collision course between indigenous cultures and European invaders, from the first English settlements on the Atlantic coast to the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, explaining how Europeans justified a process that reduced the Native American population from an estimated seven to ten million to less than 250,000 in just four centuries. Wilson shows how old ideas about native people have continued to underpin government policy and popular perception in the twentieth century, leaving a painful legacy of ignorance and misunderstanding.

From the Publisher

 Within the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The new immigrants have ignited a vibrant "Latin explosion" in American popular culture. But the Latino influence reaches far beyond music, sports, cuisine, or the latest magazine cover. Spanning five hundred years—from the first New World colonies to our nation's nineteenth-century westward expansion, from the days of gunboat diplomacy to the turn of the millennium— Harvest of Empire features family portraits of real-life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland, and how they have transformed the nation's cultural landscape.

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