The third in a series of posts by Barry Bussey, associate director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists:
Last night the participants of the IEPC travelled to the centre of Kingston to Emancipation Park where they were treated to an all Jamaican concert. It was a gospel concert with a couple of traditional non-sacred numbers thrown in. I was pleased to hear the Kencot Seventh-day Adventist Youth Choir under the direction of Cecile Boyd lead out with an excellent delivery of “Stand/He's Able”. It was a great start to the evening.
Commonweal readers will be familiar with Osborn’s clear-eyed, well-honed analysis (most recently in “Still Counting: How Many Iraqis Have Died?” February 11). This book reveals the foundation of his analysis of headline events. While neither anarchistic (in the colloquial sense of advocating violence or extreme libertarianism) nor apocalyptic (in tenor or proclamation), there is a stringency in Osborn’s thinking that is prophetic and liberating.
...Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently claimed that "the intelligence that led to bin Laden . . . began with a disclosure from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who broke like a dam under the pressure of harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding. He loosed a torrent of information -- including eventually the nickname of a trusted courier of bin Laden." That is false.
Putting the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on record for peacemaking must be honored among the many achievements of the late Neal C. Wilson (1920-2010), who served as president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1979 to 1990.
Monte Sahlin prompted this overdue recognition with a reminder about Elder Wilson's remarkable address to the International Forum on a Non-nuclear World and the Survival of Humanity, held in Moscow in February 1987. In "Peace and Peacemakers: A Christian Perspective," the Adventist leader set forth a specific peacemaking initiative, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev's
Ryan Bell interviews the founder of the New York Center for Conflict Dialogue in his second report from a recent gathering of Religious Peace Fellowships:
I sat down for breakfast at the Stony Point Retreat Center for the first full day of meetings of the Religious Peace Fellowships and as I spoke to a Mennonite leader about the Seventh-day Adventist peace work, the man to my right leaned over and said, I'm a Seventh-day Adventist. I was shocked. There were only about thirty of us and we were intentionally chosen a representatives of different denominations and religious groups. What follows is a brief introduction to Spencer Chiimbwe and an interview focused on the way his faith has shaped him in the work he does today.
Spencer Chiimbwe is a Zambian national residing in the United States since 2006. Throughout his life he has been involved in conflict transformation at a national and international level including being a Peace Fellow, Action Researcher and Coordinator for both the Coalition for Peace in Africa in Southern Africa Region and for the ACTION Support Center. He is also a member of the Global Partnership
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