Sermon, Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship, 2nd Sunday in Lent, March 1, 2026 I’ve known Sahar Vardi for 15 years now, and ever since the first time she spoke to one of my groups, I’ve asked her to re-tell the same story, and she shared it here this past Thursday. She described how not only Israel’s…
ONE. Everyone is talking about the US President’s Board of Peace to accompany his “Gaza peace plan,” announced in Davos this week, and since we’re in the peace business here, I wanted to say a few things about it. And while European allies have declined his offer, authoritarian regimes, monarchies, and others who want to…
On Saturday, January 3, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette published a Letter to the Editor from Pam Etheridge, ICMEP Board Chair, on behalf of the entire board, responding to a previous op-ed by Steven Greenberg, who describes himself as “a Fort Wayne native and a Tel Aviv-based novelist and writer.” Greenberg criticized a picture…
A Sermon preached at Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship, Berne, IN, December 28, 2025 The Lion King … Scar. Little Red Riding Hood … the Big, Bad Wolf. Sleeping Beauty … Maleficent. Harry Potter … Voldemort. Dorothy … the Wicked Witch of the West, but in Wicked, it’s the Wizard. Mary and Joseph … Herod. Every…
This week the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace hosted four Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Tashi Kyil Monastery, exiled to Dehra Dun, India, from Tibet. This is the fourth time ICMEP has hosted the monks in the last 17 years in partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, IN. …
764 days – that’s 25 months and 2 days. And this is what we’re up against: + This week it was reported that YouTube has rolled over for the President, quietly erasing more than 700 videos from three Palestinian justice organizations documenting Israeli human rights violations; + The latest issue of The Nation describes how the Israel…
ICMEP is a non-sectarian organization. This is a sermon Michael preached about the trip he recently led to South Africa (Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship, Berne, IN, October 19, 2025). It is intended for a Christian congregation, but hopefully, all people of good will find some inspiration in it. Reading: 2 Timothy 4.1-5 In the presence…
A VOICE CRIES OUT IN THE WILDERNESS: Meeting the great Gideon Levy One of the great privileges of my last trip to Palestine was getting to meet Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist who lives in Tel Aviv, and probably the most high profile Israeli journalist who is willing to tell the truth about Israel and…
Anita Rediger is part of the Pastoral Team at Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship, Berne, IN. She has been a member of MennoPIN, and is active in promoting the Palestine struggle for full civil, political, and human rights. Zoughbi Zoughbi and Bethlehem’s Wi’am Conflict Resolution & Transformation Center are partners with Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship….
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace sponsored seven of our Millennial and GenZ leaders at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit last weekend, August 29-31. Board chair, Pam Etheridge also joined them. I was able to attend on Saturday. In the midst of the US and Israeli genocidal project against the Palestinian people, 4500…