The Price of Peace and the Cost of Discipleship
Religious Nonviolence in a Warlike Culture
Rick Bernardo, Network of Spiritual Progressives
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Amelia Kroeger
Join us for an inspiring joint meeting with Every Church a Peace Church, Jackman Room, Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicolett Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (Enter parking lot from Franklin Avenue.) 612-871-7400 <>
6:30 potluck – bring a dish to pass. We hope to make this a low waste potluck, and encourage potluckers to bring their own reuseable plate, cup, silver & napkin. For those who cannot bring their own setting/s, disposables will be available.
7:00 Welcome, followed by - Kathy Kelly: “The Price of Peace and the Cost of Discipleship: Religious Nonviolence in a Warlike Culture”
Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org <http://www.vcnv.org/> ), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. As a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, Kathy helped form 70 delegations that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq from 1996-2003. Kathy and her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing.
More recently, she visited Gaza and Pakistan, writing eyewitness accounts of war’s impact on civilians. Kathy was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89) and served three months, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning’s military training school.
She and her companions at the Voices Chicago home office believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression. Kathy hasn’t paid federal income taxes since 1980.
For more about Kathy Kelly--including her theological background and the many ways she is honored as a spiritual activist--go here.
