Cross-Currents Seminar

Our first Cross-Currents seminar of the 2009 Winter/Spring season was Gene Stoltzfus speaking about Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). Besides having him here to talk about what CPT does and how they work, we had an Iranian woman come to talk about what it has been like since the U.S. and Britain soldiers have gone into Iraq. She works for women's rights in Iraq. She spoke fairly good English but we had an interpreter with her who works in London for an Iraqi news agency. It was not easy to hear about all the terrible things that are going on in Iraq at the hands of the soldiers. It's hard to believe that such practices are enforced in military training. It has strengthened my views on pacifism.