Witness

18 August 2024

Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac,

We write to express our gratitude for your visit, fellowship, and preaching in the City of Chicago and extend our prayers to you as our brother as you conclude your sojourn in America.

Our Friend Isaac Pennington in the 17^th century said that “[t]he sum and substance of true religion doth not stand in getting a notion of Christ’s righteousness, but in feeling the power of endless life, receiving the power, and being changed by the power. And where Christ is, there is his righteousness.”

Your land of Palestine is the land of Jesus Christ, called the Prince of Peace. But today, as in his time, it is subjected by empire. Since October, the State of Israel has waged an exceptionally bloody war that has decimated the Gaza Strip and killed many tens of thousands of civilians. This appears to be a genocidal war on the Palestinian people themselves. Even when there is no open war, Palestinians live in conditions of Israeli apartheid (separation) and settler-colonization (dispossession and removal) across the historic Holy Land.

Approved June 2024 Meeting for Business

The Meeting has a history and ongoing practice of affirming and celebrating our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary members and attenders.

Each person’s faithful expression of their gender and sexuality is an opportunity to make visible God’s work in creating unique individuals and ordaining relationships of peace, love, and joy between them.