How the US Department of Peace Could Demonstrate America’s Commitment to Peace and Change the Middle East

Fuller spent many years in the Middle East. She puts a face on the Middle East many Americans have not yet seen. Her award-winning memoir, ‘In Borrowed Houses’, gives readers a penetrating glimpse of the Middle East from the inside   Author Frances Fuller [Wilmington, NC August 22, 2017]  Recently King Abdullah of Jordan met […]

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Charlottesville Challenges Christians: Don’t Be Afraid, Get Out of the Boat

(Preacher’s note:   this sermon was written for the congregation of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Burlington, NC, in response to events in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday, August 12. I had another sermon written, when suddenly the news broke. I had friends, colleagues in Charlottesville, and the news was personal to me as well as completely […]

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Remember to Pray for Gaza

  Because no bombs are falling, most of us assume that there is some kind of peace in Gaza; that is, if we think of Gaza at all.  Not so. On July 21 the Jewish Voice for Peace reported how a silent war continues on this densely populated and isolated little strip of land that […]

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Remember Yemen

If you are a praying person: Remember Yemen. Recent reports from several news sources tell us that in Yemen, the poorest nation in the Arab world, one of the poorest in the world, seven million civilians are threatened by a developing famine. In addition there is a cholera epidemic that has already infected 300,000 people, […]

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