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Violence, Human Rights, and the Drug War in Mexico

Testimony by Ted Lewis before the PC(USA) Drug Policy Task Force, February 14, 2015. Watch testimony in minutes 2:15 – 14:10 of this video of Day 1 of the Richmond Hearings. I really appreciate this invitation to speak. My name … Continue reading

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A 2014 Christmas Letter

Prayers for for Jerusalem, Gaza, Israel, the Greater Middle East…Iran….Pakistan… Cuba…North Korea…Nigeria…and our trouble spots in the US. This is not an article exactly, but nor is it a digital Christmas card. Let’s call it a Christmas letter. We do … Continue reading

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This Is My Story

A Palestinian American Christian Woman I was born, the youngest of four children, into a Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) family in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1939. My birth year marked the end of the first uprising of Palestinians against their British … Continue reading

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The Right to Come Home

Midrash on the Great Woman of Shunem and Palestinian Refugees 2 Kings 4:8-37 2 Kings 8:1-6 She wouldn’t be a refugee any more if she could come back to the home she had made. She’d left seven years ago, at … Continue reading

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