Raising an army of 'peculiar' people: Christian peacemakers in Baghdad.(IRAQ)(Christian Peacemaker Teams)

Sojourners Magazine | February 1, 2006| | Copyright

While most voices from the four corners of the world cried out for the release of the four Christian Peacemaker Team members taken captive in Iraq, a few criticized CPT's work as "unwise and untimely." These were also the words liberal religious leaders used to describe the activities of Martin Luther King Jr. that landed him in a Birmingham jail in 1963. It is indeed "unwise" to place oneself in the middle of a war zone, unarmed, as the Christian Peacemakers have. It is "untimely" to stay in Baghdad--beyond the precarious safety of the Green Zone--when all other foreign ...

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