Christian Peace Witness for Iraq
Friday, March 16, 2007

It was a long but joyous day on Friday with facilitating Nonviolence Direct Action trainings with Janet Chisholm and Kolya Braun-Greiner for those participating in the worship, as well as, for those discerning a call to civil disobedience. In the morning at St. Mark's Capitol Hill (rain); in the afternoon at Epiphany downtown (sleet); the National Cathedral (snow) where I was honored to have participated in the procession as the Episcopal Peace Fellowship representative and by the seating in the north transept immediately adjacent to the speaker's platform. To have an opportunity to be in the company of the speakers especially Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia (whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Iraq), Pastor Raphael G. Warnock (Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and Jim Wallis (Call to Renewal and Sojourners) was moving and inspiring.

Janet and I, and others, were part of an Affinity Group that provided support for a friend from Nova Scotia who was arrested. Heather was one of 325 that offered themselves for civil disobedience by praying at the fence in front of the White House that evening.

All topped off with a gathering of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship at St. Alban's on Saturday.

For more coverage check out articles by the Washington Post,
United Press International, and the DC local Fox 5 news coverage (brief glimpse of me at 2:05)