The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship endorses the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) platform in its entirety. The platform, released in early August, 2016, outlines local, state, and federal policy demands with outlines of the problems in the US,…
July 8, 2016 To President Barack Obama and the Honorable Jeh Johnson, Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security: As faith leaders and faith-based organizations from many different traditions, we write out of grave concern for…
Dear friends, esteemed brothers and sisters in the faith, “We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Seek first the reign of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given…
Are there any more words that can be written or spoken after the violence of the past ten days? Certainly none that can bring back Anton Sterling or Philando Castile or Delrawn Small or Sandra Bland;…
Ashley Bair is an MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary. She participated in the PC(USA) Young Adult Volunteer Program before attending seminary, and was one of nine delegates to go to Iraqi Kurdistan in May 2016 with PPF and…
The 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) was one of the most positive church experiences I’ve had in a long time. There were moments of disappointment and frustration, as always, but I sit…
Benedicta Quispe Martinez, 43 years old Presente Cesar Flores Balboa, 1 year old Presente Lorenza Janampa de la Cruz, 50 years old Presente. The names came in what felt like a somewhat endless stream. Presente,…
It was announced on September 23 that the peace talks which have been ongoing for well over a year in Havana, Cuba between the Colombian government and some guerrilla groups seem to have reached the…
The vanquished know war, began Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and war correspondent turned Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges in an hour-long major address to friends and admirers of the peacemaking activities of Anne Barstow and Tom…
In 2010, as we approached the General Assembly in Minneapolis, the PPF National Committee went through a four-month long discernment and writing process to articulate the principles that would guide our growing commitment to take…