Editor's Acknowledgments • ix
Tricia Gates Brown

Foreword • xi
Doug Pritchard

Why We are Self-Publishing • xiii
Christian Peacemaker Teams

1. Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls: A View from the CPT Crisis Team • 1
Doug Pritchard and Carol Rose

2. Continuing the Work in Iraq: The Work of CPT and the Iraq Team • 15
Peggy Gish

3. The Response from Baghdad • 32
Greg Rollins

4. One Family: From Syria to Jordan, Stories of Compassion • 45
Sheila Provencher

5. Excerpts from Letters to Tom, Norman, Harmeet, and Jim: Written from the Village of At-Tuwani, West Bank, Palestine • 53
Kristin G. Anderson-Rosetti

6. With a Lot of Help from Our Friends: The Call from Palestine for Release of the Peacemakers • 63
Rich Meyer

7. The Road Traveled in Colombia • 72
Sandra Rincon, translated by Joel Klassen

8. The Baghdad Morgue • 79
Michele Naar-Obed

9. Where It's Easier for People to Be Good • 83
Alayna Munce

10. Taken Twice • 90
Dan Hunt

11. When Harmeet Is Free • 102
Donna Mulhearn

12. Reflections from the Edge: The Friends and Supporters of Norman Kember • 107
Pat Gaffney

13. Revisiting Courage Inside San Quentin State Prison • 114
Watani Stiner

14. On Silence, Closets, and Liberation • 125
William Payne

15. Writing Peace out of the Script • 135
Tim Nafziger and Simon Barrow

16. A Trip of Miracles • 153
Ehab Lotayef

17. A Great Hand of Solidarity: Jim Loney and Canada's Secret Trial Detainees • 162
Matthew Behrens

18. An Interview with Harmeet Sooden • 171
Sahar Ghumkhor

19. Christianity Is a Radical Call to Peacemaking • 177
Norman Kember

20. Tom Fox: A Profile of an Ordinary Man's Calling to an Extraordinary Life • 181
Selby McCash and Johannes Williams

21. Practicing Peace • 199
Elizabeth Pyles

22. No Greater Love • 203
James Loney

23. Joint Statement of Forgiveness • 221
Norman Kember, James Loney, and Harmeet Sooden

Appendix. Persons and Groups who Issued Support Statements or Appeals on Behalf of the CPT Four • 223