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Faith Leaders for Peace Day, March 19
On March 19 St. Paul’s Cathedral will host a day of Faith Leaders for Peace. Our special preacher that Sunday will be the pastor of Christian Fellowship United Church of Christ in Emerald Hills. The Rev. Dr. Art Cribbs, well known San Diego advocate for peace and justice. He is known for his moving sermons, a pastor who walks like he talks.
The Cathedral is honored to have Ambassador Robert Ellsworth speak at the 9:15 am forum on his views of the situation in Iraq. Ellsworth served at sea and ashore in the U.S. Navy in World War II (Pacific Fleet) and the Korean Conflict (Atlantic Fleet). He was a Member of the U.S. Congress for three terms in the early 1960s where he served on the Joint Economic Committee. He was national political director of Richard M. Nixon's successful 1968 presidential campaign. He is an active Episcopal layman and is married to the Rev. Eleanor Ellsworth, a priest at St. James-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla.
He has played an active role in American foreign and security policy for some 50 years. He was recently a Commissioner of the Congressionally-chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and is currently a Member of the International Advisory Board, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Ellsworth was Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense in the mid-1970s, U.S. Ambassador to NATO in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Chairman of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) from l990 to l996. He is now a Vice President of the IISS.
Faith Leaders for Peace is a newly formed ecumenical interfaith clergy coalition of faith leaders of San Diego. “We believe we have a calling to speak out: Faith Leader to Faith Leader and Faith Leaders to the Faithful.” Faith Leaders for Peace believe all of us should live to the deepest parts of our faith holding firmly to the ideals of Hope, Justice, Reconciliation and Acceptance to create a more peaceful and loving world.
Anyone so moved may join the program which gathers at the Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, March 19, 2006 at 2:00 pm for prayer. At 2:45 there will be a silent walk to the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park where clergy and lay participants will break their silence and proclaim the peace of God. All are welcome to gather for Prayer and the Peace Pilgrimage to the Hall of Nations building in Balboa Park. Let’s give peace a chance.
