Cross Walk America

Cross Walk America's web site has a section heading " CrossWalk America Co-Sponsors Successful Spiritual Activism Conference" about their participation in the 2005 NSP conference. "Over 1300 people participated in the conference on Spiritual Activism held in Berkeley, CA on July 20-23, 2005 for which CrossWalk America was a sponsoring organization. CWA Co-Presidents Rev . Dr. Eric Elnes and Rebecca Glenn, as well as Dr. Ray Steiner (PR) and Scott Logan (Logistics) attended the four-day proceedings. Sponsored by Rabbi Michael Lerner and the Tikkun Community, this interfaith gathering was intended to provide structure, momentum, and support to a growing number of like-minded progressive faith-based groups"

Now they have walked across America and will be in Washington DC this weekend. For information on where they will be Friday and Saturday click here. For information on Sunday activities click here. And for the Sunday flyer click here.

They ask that all who want to come on Sunday register here.

Bishop John Shelby Spong and author Diana Butler Bass are among the many at the closing ceremony and worship service at 4pm at Worship service at Foundry United Methodist service.

Their web site says: Where Christian Compassion Meets Progressive Action and they have an agenda called the Phoenix Affirmations.

I read about their "Love Your Neighbor" tee shirts on their CrossWalk America Blog and it's not so much that I want this tee shirt, I'd like to be able to live this tee shirt.

NSP Supports the Declaration of Peace

NSP supports The Declaration of Peace, a nationwide campaign to establish by September 21, 2006 a concrete and rapid plan for peace in Iraq. If a timetable is not set by September 21, 2006, there is a plan for a week of action, September 21 to 28, 2006.

To download a .pdf of the declaration, click here.

Contact local events organizers by clicking here.

NSP Discussions on www.zaadz.com

Join Nichola, NSP national organizer extraordinaire, on the new NSP national discussion board on www.zaadz.com.

I love Nichola's introduction to http://pods.zaadz.com/nsp: "We are an interfaith movement, welcoming to spiritual-but-not-religious people, that seeks a world based on love, kindness, generosity, and ethical and ecological sensitivity. We work together to heal and transform the United States and the world by creating political, social, and interpersonal realities that honor not only people's economic needs but also their needs for meaning, authentic mutual recognition of and from others, and connection to something larger than their own self-interest.

Let's make this little corner of the Internet a safe place to be real, to experiment, to float new ideas of how to change the world. It's okay to be human here, to make mistakes, to say things that come out the wrong way and then to apologize for them. Let's go forward together, figuring out as we go how best to be in relationship with each other."

ZAADZ is a very attractive web space - like a public Yahoo group - but much more exciting looking and easier to read. You can read it on the web without logging in. And you create your own free log-in to join the discussion. There are lots of NSP yahoo groups. Let's test this new web space and see how it works for us.

NSP Pittsburgh also has a ZAADZ space (ok they call it "pod") - http://pods.zaadz.com/nsppgh