Posts tagged Founders
Taped Speech to BPFNA Summer Conference • Discurso grabado en la Conferencia de Verano de BPFNA
Taped Speech to BPFNA Summer Conference • Discurso grabado en la Conferencia de Verano de BPFNA

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Founding BPFNA board member, Olive Tiller, will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 13, 2020! A life-long peace activist, she has supported BPFNA since its inception, and even before as she was active in the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, which later transformed into the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Olive and her late husband Carl Tiller were also the co-recipients of ABCUSA’s Dahlberg Peace Award in 1991, which recognizes those for their significant efforts in working for peace and justice over a period of time. As we celebrate this significant milestone in the life of Olive Tiller, we also remember how she helped BPFNA celebrate a historic birthday of our own almost 27 years ago. On July 5, 1994, when BPFNA celebrated 10 years as an organization, Olive gave a recorded speech to those present in Granville, OH at that year's Summer Conference. In it, Olive shares some history of BPFNA as well as her future vision for what she hopes the organization will become.

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¡La miembro fundadora de la junta de BPFNA, Olive Tiller, celebrará su centésimo cumpleaños el 13 de diciembre! Activista por la paz de toda la vida, ha apoyado a BPFNA desde sus inicios, e incluso antes, ya que participó activamente en la Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, que luego se transformó en Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Olive y su difunto esposo Carl Tiller también fueron los co-receptores del Premio Dahlberg de la Paz de ABCUSA en 1991, que reconoce q quienes han hecho importantes esfuerzos en el trabajo por la paz y la justicia durante un período de tiempo. Al celebrar este importante hito en la vida de Olive Tiller, también recordamos cómo ayudó a BPFNA a celebrar nuestro cumpleaños histórico hace casi 27 años. El 5 de julio de 1994, cuando BPFNA celebró 10 años como organización, Olive pronunció un discurso grabado a las y los presentes en Granville, OH en la Conferencia de Verano de ese año. En él, Olive comparte algo de la historia de BPFNA, así como su visión futura de lo que ella espera llegue a ser la organización.

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BPFNAHistory, Summer Conference, Peace Camp, Board, Founders, American Baptist Churches, United States
An Open Letter to US President Donald Trump • Una carta abierta al Presidente Donald J. Trump
An Open Letter to US President Donald Trump • Una carta abierta al Presidente Donald J. Trump

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Your “Wall” brought us together, 200 of us, Baptist Christians of all ages, Mexicans and Americans, but also Canadians and Cubans, Caribbeans, South and Central Americans.  Your having proclaimed this despicable “Wall,” we had to cross it.

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Su "Muro" reunió a 200 de nosotros, Cristianas y Cristianos Bautistas de todas las edades, mexicanos y americanos, pero también canadienses y cubanos, caribeños, sudamericanos y centroamericanos. Usted habiendo proclamado este despreciable "Muro", tuvimos que cruzarlo.

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BPFNASummer Conference, Peace Camp, Mexico, Members, Founders, Donald Trump
High Ideals and Hard Teachings: The Church’s Tradition of Evading Jesus
High Ideals and Hard Teachings: The Church’s Tradition of Evading Jesus

Gandhi read the Sermon on the Mount when he was young, and I think it influenced his development of the strategy of nonviolent direct action. It was a basis for his whole life. He said, "The Sermon on the Mount went straight to my heart," and was especially delighted in the section which begins: "But I say unto you, that you resist not evil; but whosoever smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." He wrote, "A life based on Christian truth was precious and indispensable to me, [but] the Church offered me rules completely at variance with the truth I loved."

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BPFNAMembers, Founders, Peace Camp, Summer Conference