Christine E. Black

Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes

by Christine E. Black | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Church leaders didn’t want me there. The minister had even called me into her office to ask me to stop passing out anti-war flyers and articles on the Iraq War. Why? Because I led a church peace group that was calling for the church to take a public stand against the illegal, immoral US government-led invasion and occupation of the sovereign nation of Iraq in March 2003, an invasion justified by lies. The church has recently taken a public stand in support of gay marriage and posted a large banner on its façade. I, and other peace committee members, thought this terrible war was at least as...

Christine E. Black's work has been published in The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod International, The Virginia Journal of Education, Friends Journal, Sojourners Magazine, The Veteran, English Journal, Dappled Things, and other publications. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Pablo Neruda Prize. She teaches in public school, works with her husband on their farm, and writes essays and articles, which have been published in Adbusters Magazine, The Harrisonburg Citizen, The Stockman Grass Farmer, Off-Guardian, Cold Type, Global Research, The News Virginian, and other publications.

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