Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Kathleen Kern/Christian Peacemaker Teams

Aug. 9 issue

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  Kern

  Opening the Iraq war box

  Earlier this summer, the bank foreclosed on my neighbors’ house.

  When the new owners arrived and put on the curb debris the family left behind, I went to scavenge.

July 12 issue

• Pursuing justice long denied

  I met Jennifer Harbury in 1994 when we were living in a Washington, D.C., religious community. I was doing the background research for Christian Peacemaker Teams’ Washington project between stints with CPT in Haiti, and Harbury was trying to locate her husband, Efrain Bamaca, whom the Guatemalan government had “disappeared.”

June 14 issue

• Why torture is always wrong

  I continue to have difficulty with the fact that the topic of whether U.S. interrogators may torture prisoners is still open for discussion.

May 10 issue

• Getting to truth in Thailand

  When protests in Thailand began receiving media coverage in March, my husband and I were at first bemused by the lack of content in the reports.

April 12 issue

• An ugly truth in Colombia

  The Body Shop, a leading cosmetics maker, was one of the first corporations to develop a branding based on social responsibility. To build that reputation, it has supported environmental causes, fair trade and human rights.

March 8 issue

• Just wars and civilian deaths

  In recent years, Mennonites and other pacifist Christians have been reaching across theological and philosophical lines to find common ground with proponents of the just-war tradition.

Feb. 8 issue

• What Israelis might not know

  To the Israeli Ministry of the Interior: things you might not know about internationals working in Palestine.

Jan. 11 issue

• Nothing like apartheid

  I only got 10 minutes of church in this morning.
  I was late because soldiers told me and a bewildered German girl, who was visiting Bethlehem from a kibbutz near Eilat,
  that people like us could no longer ride with Palestinians on Bus 21.
  We had to go to another checkpoint, but he could not tell us how to get there.

Dec. 7, 2009 issue

• Eight martrys, with names

  Julia Elba Ramos was not a great cook, but she was becoming a better one as part of her housekeeping job at the University of Central America. In November 1989, she had just learned how to bake cakes, and was saving money to buy her own electric oven.

Nov. 9, 2009 issue

• Not the Great Commission

  Last month, I went to a talk given by former U.S. Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein at a local university. Speaking on behalf of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, he shared the following story of a soldier serving in Iraq who called him, sobbing, recently.

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