peace

Century Blogs

All is not calm; all is not bright

Dec 11, 2012 by Ashley-Anne Masters

Those of us in violence-plagued neighborhoods look forward to winter's reprieve. Our teenagers understand Advent waiting all too well.

News

Jewish and Christian groups at impasse over U.S. aid to Israel

Oct 18, 2012 by Lauren Markoe

An established interfaith group is in danger of disintegrating as major American Jewish groups and prominent mainline Protestant churches differ over U.S. aid for Israel—a long-standing argument that the group was established, in part, to diffuse.

Century Blogs

Selective memory

Jul 03, 2012 by Richard A. Kauffman

The fourth of July joins Memorial Day and Veterans day as the three times a year I feel out of step with the rest of American culture. While I’m grateful for my country’s freedoms and opportunities, and I want to mourn with those who mourn the losses of war, I cannot participate in rituals that glorify war.

Features

To tell the truth

Nobel winner Leymah Gbowee

Nov 16, 2011 by Amy Frykholm

If Martin Luther King Jr. had written a book exposing his personal failings, it would have been seen as undermining his cause. But Leymah Gbowee does not want to be thought of as a hero.

In the World

On the shelf: 118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq, edited by Tricia Gates Brown

Nov 13, 2008 by Steve Thorngate

When four men affiliated with Christian Peacemaker Teams were abducted in Iraq, media coverage made little mention of the fact that one of them is gay.

Books

Christian juxtapositions: Peace in Northern Ireland

Jul 28, 1999 reviewed by Steven Schroeder

The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland. 
By Mareid Corrigan Maguire. Orbis, 123 pp.

People Behind the Peace: Community and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland. 
By Ronald A Wells. Eerdmans, 128 pp. 

Editor's Desk

Tough conversations

Sep 07, 2011 by John M. Buchanan

It is difficult for Jews to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's also difficult for Christians to talk about it with Jews.

Books

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume One

New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

By Ched Myers and Elaine Enns

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume Two

Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers

Ways of peace

Nov 08, 2010 by Samuel Wells

There isn't a tidy way to write about forgiveness. It's the whole gospel, for sure. But you've got to deal with the sin that preceded it and the damage that won't go away no matter how much reconciliation follows it. You've got to deal with the stop-start nature of relationships, the silence and paralysis of pain and shame, and the fact that we fail at least as much as we succeed.

News

Is 'just peace' possible in Iraq?

Thorny postwar issues
Jun 15, 2010
For centuries, Christianity’s theory of “just war” has helped religious and political leaders determine when, if ever, war is justified and how to conduct a moral military campaign. Now, as the U.S. prepares to reduce troop levels in Iraq this summer and in Afghanistan next year, the 1,500-year-old theory is being deployed on a less-familiar mission: ending the wars ethically.
Books

Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace, and the Christian Tradition

Mark J. Allman

Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace, and the Christian Tradition

Apr 06, 2010 reviewed by Christopher P. Vogt
There was once a time when most people assumed that the question of whether to wage war was to be decided by princes and kings, but in a democracy this moral responsibility ultimately rests with all citizens. In Who Would Jesus Kill? Mark J.