Peace Messenger

APF Leadership Change

Dear Members and Friends of Adventist Peace Fellowship,

I am pleased to announce that Ronald Osborn, a co-founder of Adventist Peace Fellowship, has accepted the role of director, effective July 1, 2011.  This change came about at my initiative, in consultation with the APF advisory board.  While I have mixed feelings about relinquishing responsibility as director, I believe the change will serve to expand and energize the work of APF.

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation - 4

The fourth in a series of posts by Barry Bussey, associate director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists:

The messiness of peace was evident today in the convocation. Exactly what does “Peace among the Peoples” look like. The modern state has a number of actors that causes one to pause in trying to figure out the complexities of war. Consider for example the country of Norway. It seeks to maintain a very positive image around the world as not only a peaceful country but a peacekeeping country.

To End All Wars: A Story of Love and Rebellion, 1914-1918

by Adam Hochshild
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 2011

"In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation. Implicit in Adam Hochschild's account is this chilling warning: once governments become captive of wars they purport to control, they turn next on their own people."--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation - 3

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.

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation - 2

The second post by Barry Bussey, associate director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists:

One of the great things about attending an international conference is the different people you meet. For those of us who are on the extroverted side it is an absolute blast. “It is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get.” I heard that somewhere before. Well it is much the same at a conference.