The National Council of Churches has launched an interactive Web page to enable persons of all faiths to add their prayers for peace in the Middle East: www.seasonofprayer.org.
Learn about the many resources offered by the Episcopal Peace
Fellowship at www.epfnational.org. Among those resources is "Creating a
Culture of Peace" training that encourages the spirituality and
practice of active peacemaking in daily life.
In a sermon given at Trinity Church in Concord on Jan. 28, 2007, the Rev. Timothy E. Crellin, vicar of St. Stephen’s Church in Boston, tells of being humbled and inspired by the April 1967 preaching of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on why King had made ending the war in Vietnam a primary goal. Crellin makes the connection between current inner-city violence and the violence used “to solve problems in the global political arena” today. Listen to the full sermon at www.trinityconcord.org/sermons.shtml.
O God, our help in ages past, our hope today and tomorrow, we approach you in deep humility at this hour of tragic crisis.
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and
superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.