Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action message to Congress urging them to support the agreement. The Christian leaders wrote: "This is a moment to remember the wisdom of Jesus who proclaimed from the Sermon on the Mount, 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God' (). ... There is no question we are all better off with this deal than without it." The letter was coordinated by a Quaker group, the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Signatories to the letter included Jim Wallis of Sojourners; John C. Dorhauer, general minister and president of the United Church of Christ; Shane Claiborne; Adam Estle
The Sermon of St. Francis in 1875. It was included in an anthology he edited titled "Poems of Places" in 1877 and also republished after his death in "Through Italy with the Poets" in 1908. According to scholar William Charvat, the poem is like many of Longfellow's later writings in that it touches upon the poet's struggle with fame. Like the birds in the poem, he questions if his readers will understand his message. The Sermon of St. Francis "The Sermon of St. Francis" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). It is part of his collection "Birds of Passage". The poem