Our next Potluck Supper Meeting - Mon. May 11th at 6:30 p.m.

      "Swords into Plowshares"

 

Hamline United Methodist Church

1514 Englewood Ave.; St. Paul, MN  55104

651-645-0667  -  http://www.hamlinechurch.org/home.asp

Enter parking lot from Minnehaha Ave.; use south side entrance.

 

Joint meeting with Minnesota Veterans for Peace (Chapter 27)

http://www.twincitiesvfp.org 

 

Program:      Swords into Plowshares:  History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

Roger Hale - Chair of Ploughshares Fund  http://www.ploughshares.org

(Retired Chairman of Tennant  Company)

There will be ample time for questions and comments.

 

This is a VERY timely topic right now, as the U.S. government is, for the first time in many years, having conversations with Iran and other nations on the topic of nuclear disarmament.  More details and a publicity flyer/poster will be forthcoming in a few days.  The title was inspired by the following passage.

 

Isaiah 2:1-4

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

 

Now it shall come to pass in the later days

That the mountain of the Lord's house

Shall be established on the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills;

And all nations shall flow to it.

 

Many people shall come and say,

"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

He will teach us his ways,

And we shall walk in His paths."

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

 

He shall judge between the nations,

And shall reboke many people;

They shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into pruning hooks;

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war anymore.

 

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Rod Olsen     rolsen6376@...     651-228-7224