This is a tough topic. The issues are complex, and the views are divergent, but without a doubt anyone who is a witness to the brutal atrocities taking place grieve and lament the cost of war on innocent people. As I am growing in my own Anabaptist Mennonite faith, I am deeply moved by the violence that we are seeing in this conflict. Moderating a conversation with such divergent views required maintaining a somewhat objective position with the panel, but in reality, it is impossible to remain objective. The war in Palestine is killing tens of thousands of innocent people, not to mention the trauma that is taking place psychologically and spiritually on both the victims and the perpetrators. If I were to do a follow up (and I hope we can), I would want to focus on the positive peace and non-violent responses and actions by Christians and others to bring a halt to all forms of violence in our world, including in the Middle East. This panel and the subsequent video falls short of achieving such goals, but it is a start and I am grateful for the opportunity to be apart of on-going conversations on campus around this topic.
Development and Justice 
Hi Greg,
Hope you’re off to a good start this week. Sheri and I watched your chapel panel discussion today and were impressed with the quality of your professor group both intellectually and character-wise. You called a halt to the discussion based on chapel schedule, but I think we could have listened to all 4 of them for several hours. Let us know if you will do a longer session with them at some point, and if we could be there to hear them, we’d love that.
I think we’ll be seeing you this Saturday, so we can perhaps discuss the issues more then.
Love, Dave and Sheri