August 22, 2008
Gene Stoltzfus
Gene Stoltzfus
Note: Until 2004, was the Director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), a program of Brethren, Mennonite and Friends churches and other affiliated organizations that places teams in high conflict zones
Last week for eight days I joined a walk from Chicago to St. Paul, Minnesota, a seven week trek that will culminate at the Republican National Convention in the opening days of September. Our numbers varied from fifty participants to ten as we wound our way along highways, town boulevards and bicycle paths in south central Wisconsin towards and along the Mississippi River. A core group of ten nonviolent practitioners at Voices for Creative Nonviolence began in January to organize foot soldiers like me for this dialogue of the village For years I have wanted to learn how walks of this nature unfold. Travel by foot brought me closer to the feel of Gandhi’s freedom walks and Jesus journey with his handful of disciples through the towns of Palestine.
