26 OCT 08

Fall Peace Forum

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Barshinger Center
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA

This year's Fall Peace Forum, hosted by the Center for Liberal Arts & Society of Franklin & Marshall College, will feature Daniel Levy, a Senior Fellow at the New America and The Century Foundations in Washington, DC. With Respondent Adam Horowitz. Get more info on this event here.

 

Listen to Dr. David Commins' address given at the Annual LIPW Spring Peace Forum held on Sunday, April 13, 2008.

 

SAVE THE DATE!

The LIPW Spring Peace Forum will be held March 29, 2009, from 3 PM - 5 PM. It will feature Dr. Charles Kimball, Presidential Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Kimball is author of "When Religion Becomes Evil" and an expert on Islam, the Middle East, and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. Watch this web site for updated information.

 

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Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness (LIPW) is a group of Lancaster County Christian clergy, church members, congregations, and organizations dedicated to promoting the values of peacemaking and nonviolence for the creation of a more secure, sustainable, and just world.

 

LIPW formed as the result of a forum held at Lancaster Meeting in April 2004. At the forum, “Christian Teachings on Militarism”, a distinguished panel of historic peace church leaders issued a call for a local church witness for peace. The panelists, including Dr. John A. Lapp, Dr. Donald B. Kraybill, Dale W. Brown, and Steven Baumgartner, issued a call for concerted peace action.

 

Our goals include:

  • exploring causes of global war and injustice, promoting interchurch conversation
  • speaking thoughtfully to other Christians about the need for just peace solutions to conflict
  • organizing public forums
  • making public statements
  • demonstrating our commitment to a positive peace witness and action
  • building a foundation for peacemaking that is sustainable
  • providing peacemaking resources for individuals and congregations

We share our witness against war on billboards, in signed newspaper ads, in letters to the editor, and through public events.

 

We raise awareness about peaceful solutions and the Christian mandate to seek peace by sponsoring a speaker series. LIPW speakers have included Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine, Donald Kraybill of Elizabethtown College, former CIA agent Ray McGovern, and peace activist Sister Joan Chittister.

 

Our Middle East Interest Group focuses attention on that region through book studies, discussions, and speaking events.

 

 

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Support Talks with Iran

Watch American Friends Service Committee's General Secretary, Mary Ellen McNish's, web video & take action to support talks with Iran here.

 

Join AFSC & President Carter in a Stand for Peace

President Jimmy Carter has made an important call for peace in his recent book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Tell Congress that you stand with President Carter in his belief that the United States has an important role to play in working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by supporting human rights, international law and diplomacy. Take action here.

 

National Religious Campaign Against Torture

We encourage you to consider the NRCAT's statement on "Torture is a Moral Issue." Find out how you can join over 10,000 people who have already endorsed this statement here.

 

Take Action to End the US War and Occupation in Iraq!

Sign the Declaration of Peace.

 

 
           
             
             
Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness • P.O. Box 1092 • Lancaster, PA 17608
lancasterinterchurchpeacewitness@yahoo.com

 

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