PILGRIMAGE SPEAKERS

Past Speakers

1977 Richard Deats, Fellowship of Reconciliation

1978 Philip Berrigan

1979 Msgr. Robert Coll, Pastor St. Thomas More; Founder, Operation Rice Bowl

1980 Robert Raines, Author; Director, Kirkridge Retreat Center

1981 Richard McSorley, S.J., Prof of Peace Studies, Georgetown University; Author

1982 Ronald Sider, Prof., Eastern College, Author; President, Evangelicals for Social Action
Arbutus Sider, active in bettering Philadelphia schools

1983 Gordon Zahn, Prof. emeritus, U of Mass; Pres, Pax Christi Center on Conscience & War

1984 S. Mary Lou Kawnacki, OSB, Member, Benedictine Sisters of Erie; Founder, Pax Center

1985 Samuel Caldwell, General Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

1986 Elizabeth Dickinson, "Peace Partner" Lancaster/Lebanon Assn United Church of Christ

1987 G. Clarke Chapman, Professor of Religion, Moravian College; author

1988 Thomas J. Gumbleton, Regional Bishop Detroit; active with Witness for Peace

1989 John K. Stoner, Secretary, Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section, U. S. A.

1990 Myron Augsburger, pastor, Washington Community Fellowship; professor; author

1991 Marian Claassen Frantz, Executive Director, National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

1992 C. Douglas Hostetter, Executive Secretary, Fellowship of Reconciliation

1993 Rev. William Callahan, Co-director of Quixote Center; Initiator, Quest for Peace

1994 Jim Wallis, Editor, Sojourners magazine; Founder, Sojourners Community, Washington

1995 Ursula Wuerth, Lehigh Valley peacemaker

1996 Lady Borton, Vietnam representative, American Friends Service Committee

1997 Molly Rush, Ploughshares Eight; co-founder, Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh

1998 George Lakey, director, Training for Change; founder, Movement for a New Society

1999 John Dear, S. J., Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation; author

2000 Gene Stoltzfus, Coordinator of Christian Peacemaker Teams

2001 Jeff Garis, Director of Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty

2002 Susan Crane, member of the Jonah House community, Baltimore

2003 John Stoner, Every Church a Peace Church

2004 Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches

2005 Sr. Patricia Keefe, Outreach Coordinator for Nonviolent Peaceforce, USA

2006 Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches