David LaMotte is a singer-songwriter and a global peacemaker living in Black Mountain, North Carolina in the U.S. He’s made his living as a musician for many years, but in 2008 he became a Rotary Peace Fellowship which opened up the activist opportunities. As a Rotary Peace Fellow he studied in Australia and worked with… Read more »
Category: Christianity
Zoe Mulford, Joan Baez and Jeff Scher
Following the 2015 mass shooting at “Mother” Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Zoe Mulford wrote an evocative song about the shooting and President Barak Obama spontaneously singing “Amazing Grace” during the memorial service. Joan Baez included it in what is reported to be her final album “Whistle Down the Wind” released in March… Read more »
Saboi Jum (d. 2017)
Saboi Jum was a Kachin Baptist leader from the north of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. He was an ordained minister, serving from 1990 to 2000 as the General Secretary of the Kachin Baptist Convention, one of the larger ethnic groups within the Burma Baptist Convention (later Myanmar Baptist Convnetion). Most of the Kachins in… Read more »
Michael Sharp
On March 30, 2017 the news reported the finding of the bodies of two United Nations workers in eastern Congo. One was Michael Sharp from Kansas in the United States; the other was Zaida Catalán from Sweden. They were members of a U.N. “Group of Experts” who were working on conflict resolution in the long, torturously-twisted… Read more »
Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity…All a poet can do today is warn.” These words by Wilfred Owen are inscribed on the title page of British composer Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem.” Britten combined the Latin text of the Requiem Mass with nine poems of the World… Read more »