Linton Weeks writes in The Washington Post:
It was the coolest of church coffeehouses.
“Thanks for coming to give peace a chance,” David Crosby told the crowd of more than 2,500 at Washington National Cathedral, before he and Graham Nash launched into “Lay Me Down.”
To kick off last night’s Pray for Peace concert, John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington and the evening’s emcee, quoted Nash: “No person has the right to take another person’s life in the name of God.” Churches and religions should be instruments of peace, not war, he said.
When people gather to pray for peace, “what you are praying for is an end to war,” Chane said. He said it was not an antiwar event, but a moment to call on nations to lay down all arms. “War,” he said, “is the ultimate declaration of human failure. What we are saying is: Enough is enough.”