John Paul Stephens has asked if I could help compile a list of online tributes to our Tom Fox, the fallen Christian Peacemaker for FreetheCaptivesNow.org’sTom Fox Memorials page. I’ve started a list, now up on QuakerQuaker.org, that I’ll keep up for a few months. Any readers who know of something that should be included should either email me at martink-at-nonviolence-dot-org or tag it “for:martin_kelley” in Del.icio.us. Thanks. Here’s my list so far:
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Free the Captives Giving Thanks
"We do not support the ongoing occupation of Iraq, but we know that the soldiers serving there are human beings endowed with the same qualities we cherish in our friends and neighbors."
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Who Killed Tom Fox? Why and What's the Reason For?
"Out here on the radical fringe of Christianity, there are those of us who believe that there are worse things than being killed standing up for what you believe in. We feel that it’s better to honor our personal integrity, our relationship with the div
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Add Fox's name to book of martyrs
Fox "had been shot in the head and chest and bore scars of torture. And so it was learned he had joined the ranks of Christians who have paid the price of death for the way they chose to live. We call them martyrs, and Fox is one in the true sense."
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Mobtown: The Butcher and the Peacemaker
"I glanced at Tom's blog once or twice, noted that it seemed to be more about 'current events' than about 'religion,' and moved on... Had I not been in such a hurry to find latter-day, online incarnations of Thomas Kelly and Rufus Jones, I would have foun
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Statement from Fox's Langley Hill Friends Meeting
"The loss of Tom is personal to those of us at Langley Hill who knew and loved him. We need to remember that personal loss has also happened to thousands of Iraqis -- indeed to tens of thousands of families around the world -- who have lost loved ones in
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Remembering Tom Fox
A memorial page on the Christian Peacemaker site
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Friends Recall Tom Fox
"The Tom Fox the world didn't get to see was an affable man with a keen sense of humor, according to those who knew him."
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On Death and the Treasuring of Life
"The news shook me up much more than I would have expected, and I’ve been trying to figure out why. Of course I realized that this outcome was a possibility... I realize that I feel shaken because this news makes me think: 'the world is worse off than I
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Every Church A Peace Church's John Stoner
"And I learned that this church sign, passed by thousands of people on foot and in cars every day, has a reputation in Toronto of carring meaningful and provocative truths. Tom's witness has impacted this church... They are exploring the power of gospel
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Greiving & Forgiveness
"It's hitting me for the first time, it all seemed so remote before somehow. Maybe I thought that they wouldn't kill any of them -- that it would be bad 'PR', or that compassion would win out."
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Missionary Anna: loss and light
"How do you explain to those around you who haven't met someone who has influenced their lives in such a way why it hurts so much, why the tears are flowing?... The world family of Friends is well called that."
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Pensieve on Rage and Anger
"In wanting to find out more, I googled 'Tom Fox tortured'. The first result was from Tom’s own blog Waiting in the Light...In reading this my anger abated."
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On the death of Tom Fox
"As one Friend told me, 'this is historical in nature--Quakers have been dying for centuries to promote the testimonies"... Somehow, Fox's death seems unique to me."
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Gene Stolzfus on the cost of peacemaking
"Christian peacemaking begins with a prayer, where all of life including its beginning and its end is offered as an act of love that the Glory of God might be revealed."
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Chuck Fager remembers his longtime friend
"But Tom heard a 'different drummer,' especially after September 11, 2001. With a war on, he felt called to 'pursue peace' in a concrete way. After much prayer and reflection, he joined the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)."
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Peggy P: A Peacemaker's Last Full Measure
"Tom Fox''s life was not taken from him. Tom Fox laid his life down a long time ago. He surrendered it into the hands of the Divine. Because he knew it was safe there, he was able to walk unbound by fear, letting the Light within him control and impel him
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What We Can Learn from the murder of Tom Fox?
"To make Tom a superstar, projecting our best intentions onto him, rather than personally taking on the burden ourselves, is to miss the point...He was just an ordinary organic foods grocer who followed his conscience."
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I want you all to know him more...
"I keep crying but I also feel overwhelmed by the gift of having known you and loved you, my beloved uncle - 'Amu Tom' as all the Iraqi and Palestinian children called you."
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Will.Whim: a psalm for Tom Fox
"Yet I do believe that the Light overcomes shadows/Perhaps the despair of their hearts now"
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Cherice on our Quaker martyr
"I agree--we don't really WANT more martyrs, but it got me thinking: what is martyrdom good for?"
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Quaker AJ Schwanz: Sleep, Sleep Tonight: Tom Fox
"Some might say his actions were foolish, but what’s better -- a fool for God or 'wise' for one’s own selfish desires?"
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NIL: Forgiveness is simple, but not easy
"Right as the hostage-takers would have been planning Tom Fox’s death, I would have been planning for my Quran study, and exchanging email about our meeting’s desire to better understand Islam."
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Cath Peace Fellowship on the Martyrdom of Tom Fox
"Tom Fox went to Iraq on a great mission of humanity and, properly speaking, of Christianity."
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Christian Peacemakers mourne the loss of Tom Fox
"In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion. The death of our beloved colleague and friend pierces us with pain. Tom Fox’s body was found in Baghdad yesterday."
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