Bridging the Gap

Delivered at the United Methodist Men’s Prayer Breakfast. January 9, 2010 A Jewish street preacher exiled to Babylon issues the poignant admonition; a cry of desperation to the people of Israel. “I looked for a man who would stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to […]

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Making Peace in a World of Violence

Posted in Peace, Speeches

Delivered at the Making Peace in the Arenas of Violence Conference, The Board of Church and Society, The United Methodist Church, Lansing, Michigan, March 30, 2002 Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” Matthew 5:9 “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually […]