Reconciliation Events

October 17-19, 2008: The 2008 CCN-North America Board meeting in Minneapolis, MN, hosted by St. Mark’s Cathedral.

October 12-14, 2007:  The Community of the Cross of Nails in North America 2007 Annual Board Meeting, Trinity Wall Street, NYC.

October 14th, 2006: Memorial services were held for the Rev. Canon Sanford Garner Jr.  at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. In association with Coventry Cathedral, U.K., and as a Companion of the Order of the Cross of Nails of Coventry Cathedral, he assisted in the establishment of The House of Hope, a peace center for Palestinian and Israeli youth in Galilee in the 1970s.

Sunday, 24th September, 2006: Heritage Day will go down in the memory of many of the Protea Village Community [South Africa] as a special day to remember. After 11 years since submitting their claim for the return of their land & 40 years since the Community was forcibly removed, justice is being done.

March 17-19, 2006:  The Rev. Thee Smith (CCN-North America board member) co-organized a conference, "Southern Exposure: A Regional Summit on Racial Violence & Reconciliation." This first annual event was held at the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the Univ. of Mississippi at Oxford. For the conference flyer and tentative schedule see http://www.olemiss.edu/winterinstitute/archives/conf-program.pdf

Thee Smith has worked with other members of the Community of the Cross of Nails Atlanta chapter based at the Cathedral of St. Philip to sponsor the conference. Other partnering organizations include the Winter Institute at Ole Miss and the Birmingham Pledge organization in Birmingham, as a regional collaboration of racial reconciliation partners (See www.birminghampledge.org)

The Southern Exposure conference is for all individuals interested in the South's efforts to build community and promote justice and racial reconciliation. It is free and open to the public, and will provide opportunity for community groups to showcase their local efforts at information tables. You may register online at www.olemiss.edu/winterinstitute. Limited travel & lodging scholarships are available for those otherwise unable to attend. For more information contact 662-915-6734 or wwirr@olemiss.edu.

March 3, 2006: Oliver Schuegraf, Co-ordinator of the Community of the Cross of Nails, left Coventry to return to Germany. Read his Farewell Note.

February 25, 2006:  Memorial services were held for Van Kussrow in Hendersonville, NC.  The homily was given by The Rev. H. Alexander Viola, retired rector of St. James Episcopal Church. Dr. Kussrow was made a Companion of the Order in 1970 and served as president of the CCN-USA for many years.

January 2006:  Historic Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia featured a forum series in January 2006 entitled “Reconciliation: No Longer an Option”. Bernard Nolan spoke at the January 15 session and presented the CD covering the September 11, 2005 dedication of a Cross of Nails to St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, in New York City. Christ Church's January program led up to the January 30 – February 1, 2006 meeting at Trinity Church in NY: The Anatomy of Reconciliation: From Violence to Healing.

September 11, 2005:  St. Paul's Chapel (Parish of Trinity Church) became a CCN-North America center.

February 2005:  Fuller Theological Society hosted Payton Lectures February 22-24, 2005. Theophus Smith, associate professor of religion at Emory University, spoke each day in Fuller's Travis Auditorium at 10:00 a.m. The theme this year was, "Return to Divine Providence: Essaying a Theology of Providence Today."  For more information, call 626-584-5300. Lecture topics were as follows:

Tuesday, February 22:  "The Left Hand of God: Return After Encountering Our Negation In History"
Wednesday, February 23:  "The Right Handy God: Return After Rivaling Our God For Utopia"
Thursday, February 24:  "The One Hand Loving of God: Return After Incorporating Our Non-Dual Religions"

Workshop leader gave a preview:  Scapegoating and alienating. Reconciliation. Community. Making relationships whole. Opening the circle wide.

October 2004: CCN-USA Board meeting, October 22-24 at Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, TN.

June 2004: CCN-USA conference on reconciliation and sexual orientation.

January 29-February 1, 2004:  Reconciliation Conference: Islam and Christianity: Reconciliation through Understanding. Kanuga Conference Center, North Carolina. Registration through the Kanuga Conference Center.

July 30-August 8, 2003:  CCN booth #64 at ECUSA (Episcopal Church in the United States of America) General Convention in Minneapolis.

October 28-29, 2003:  CCN Board Meeting in Atlanta. Registration information for CCN members will appear on the website by August 15th.

University Centre for Forgiveness and Reconciliation sets its agenda,  on October 10th, 2003.

A dozen Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders from the Holy Land met in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria and signed an unprecedented joint declaration committing themselves to work together for a just and lasting peace: The First Alexandria Declaration of the Religious Leaders of the Holy Land, January 21, 2001.

"Journey Toward Forgiveness," a documentary produced by Mennonite Media for the National Council of Churches (NCC), was released to ABC network television stations on Dec 2, 2001.