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This is the second part of a two-part reflection; read the first part here.

This past week I attended Occupy Faith’s second interfaith gathering, held in Berkeley, CA; I went as a representative of FOR and in my capacity as a member of the Protest Chaplains NYC (read more about the Protest Chaplains here).  John Lindsay-Poland was also in attendance, as was Reverend Michael Harrington, who manages the website

This is the fourth part of a travelogue of my recent experience traveling to Israel/Palestine as part of an Christian-Jewish seminarian interfaith group; read the first part here, the second part here and the third part here.

This is the third part of a travelogue of my recent experience traveling to Israel/Palestine as part of an Christian-Jewish seminarian interfaith group; read the first part here and the second part here.

On January 26th, protestors from Occupy Wall Street, the Protest Chaplains, Organize for Occupation, Housing is a Human Right and FUREE participated in a nonviolent direct action to shut down a foreclosure auction in Brooklyn.  Myself and three other Chaplains joined the peaceful, joyous action at the Brooklyn courthouse:

This is the second part of a travelogue of my recent experience traveling to Israel/Palestine as part of an Christian-Jewish seminarian interfaith group; read the first part here.

I recently returned from a ten-day trip to Israel/Palestine, as part of an interfaith dialogue program between Christian seminarians and Jewish rabbinic students organized by Auburn Seminary and the American Jewish Committee (AJC).  The partner organization in Israel was the

In my last post, I discussed my role as a Protest Chaplain (PC) at Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and offered some reflections about the Protest Chaplains NYC group.  Since that post a month ago, the group has grown to nearly twice its previous size (currently 70-odd members) and has recruited many chaplains outside of Union Theological S

So, as I mentioned in Ivan Boothe’s recent Occupy movement post, I’ve been participating in Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as part of Union Theological Seminary’s new Protest Chaplains chapter, Protest Chaplains NYC (protestchaplainsnyc@gmail.com).  This post will describe a bit about who the Protest Chaplains are, what

Over the past few weeks, as the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its fourth week and reciprocal Occupy movements have emerged across the country, we’ve received a number of requests for resources and guidelines related to nonviolent resistance for protests and demonstrations.  Below are a couple of basic resources that the Fellowship of Reconciliation has used — the first is a link to a