On October 16, 2013, fifteen leaders of Oregon's religious communities gathered at First United Methodist Church in Portland to voice their opposition to Oregon's death penalty and present their reasons for advocating its abolition. The convocation and dinner was sponsored by Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (OADP) and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO).
We hope you will carefully consider this powerful collection of moral and practical reasons for opposition to capital punishment.
Participants included:
Rev. Mark Knutson
Pastor
Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
NE Portland
Rev. Rick Davis
Minister
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem
Archbishop Alexander Sample
Catholic Archdiocese of Portland
Rev. Dr. Walter John Boris
Conference Minister
Central Pacific Conference
United Church of Christ
Rev. Peg Lofsvold
Cascadia District Superintendent
Oregon-Idaho Conference
United Methodist Church
Sukhsimranjit Singh
Professor of Law, Willamette University
Student of Sikhism
Rev. Dr. Barbara J. Campbell
Pastor
St. Mark Presbyterian Church
Portland
Rev. Rachel Ringenberg-Miller
Pastor of Community Life
Portland Mennonite Church
Rt. Rev. Michael J. Hanley
Bishop
Episcopal Diocese of Oregon
Patricia Shepard
Society of Friends
(Quakers)
Rabbi Daniel Isaak
Congregation Neveh Shalom
Portland
Bishop David Brauer-Rieke
Oregon Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Dr. Rodney Page
Christian Church Disciples of Christ
J. Colleen Michael
Executive Minister
Church of the Brethren
Arthur Davis
Order of Inter-Being
Buddhist Tradition
Rev. Kent Harrop
Pastor
First Baptist Church
McMinnville
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