Telling Your Own Story
Carroll High School, Jimmy Carter’s Iran Hostage Crisis, Definition of ‘Palestinian’ One of the things that Critical Studies (that’s right, Critical Race Studies, Critical Gender Studies, and the like) has…
Rev. Graylan Hagler Asks Supporters of Israel: “Isn’t it about time to break your silence?”
Graylan Hagler and I have known each other for at least a dozen years. He was our guest speaker for our 2018 Annual ICMEP Commemoration of the UN’s Universal Declaration…
Perspectives on Israeli Apartheid and Extremism from two Jewish Voices of Conscience
Dear friends, I want to highlight two recent articles from American Jewish voices of conscience. Along with The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss comes into my InBox every morning. It is a…
Peter Beinert says, “Jimmy Carter Deserves an Apology Before He Dies”
I read Jimmy Carter’s September, 2007 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid within a month after it appeared. By that time I had led my first four “Solidarity Tours” to Palestine and…
Radically Mennonite
The following is a sermon offered by Michael Spath on Feb. 5, 2023, at Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship in Berne, IN. You are the salt of the earth; but if…
Israel is Killing More than One Palestinian a Day in 2023
I’m typing these words at 8:17am on Thursday, January 26, and I’m noting the date and time because the numbers sadly, alarmingly, are increasing daily, almost hourly. Nine Palestinians have…
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet at 100
Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote this to his dear Mary Haskell from Paris already in 1908 about what would eventually become a trilogy, a full fifteen years before the publication of…
Where Do You Find Hope?
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, The two questions I’m asked most often are: First, “Why do you do what you do? What is…
A Declaration to the World
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace,I was invited to represent ICMEP at the (November 18-19) 13th anniversary of the seminal Kairos Palestine document (2009) and for the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition (of…
ALPHA: Exploring the Concept of Masculinity in Jerusalem’s Museum On the Seam
So I’m in Palestine and Israel this week for the 13th anniversary of the Kairos Palestine document as well as meetings of the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition. But I…