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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Emmanual Labor

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+Christ is in our midst!+

This is a poem that was posted to the Orthodox Peace Fellowship listserv.

The opening role-playing on the Taverna thread made me think of it. I hope it will bless you as it has blessed me:

Emmanuel Labor:
instructions on how to clean the living room

one: listen to how the heart quakes
two: let words fall like leaves unraked
three: forget all you think you understand

sweep the floor
open the windows and the door
death is dust
Christ has freed the man

now dig softly through the clutter
until you hit gratitude

Pay dirt!
linger there
linger there

-Miles Stryker

Orthodox Peace Fellowship: InCommunion.org
 
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