Letter

Letters to the Editor

by Dave Watson, CTS M.Div. '98

It’s good to read a more balanced presentation about the Israeli-Arab conflict coming out of a CRC institution.

Everything that is coming down from the Pentagon is taking an anti-Israeli turn - see the latest article “BOT Members Sign Hope Equals Wall” http://crcna.org/news.cfm?newsid=1821§ion=1. What a coercive action, to put the wall in your face right outside the BOT meeting. The article mentions that “the CRC is a member of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), a coalition of 22 Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant national churches and agencies.” Now if you look at their website www.cmep.org and their partners http://www.cmep.org/partner/cmeppartners.html - you won’t find evangelical churches. The CRC has taken a turn toward Mainline Ecumenical political advocacy. Its’ a sad turn of events. Even World Missions new initiative is politicizing World Missions.

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