Biblical and Spiritual Foundations for Peacemaking Web Resources

• Websites
• Bibliographies

Websites

Association for Conflict Resolution--Spirituality Section
ACR is an international, professional organization. Its Spirituality Section hosts pages with articles and book reviews.

Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

Every Church a Peace Church (ECAPC)
The goal of ECAPC is to invite churches to make this affirmation and to act upon it: "Following Jesus in nonviolent struggle for justice and peace, we love our neighbors and enemies as God loves us all, becoming a peace church to share in God’s work to save the world."

Online articles cover many topics from religious perspective: difficult scriptural passages, nonviolence, U.S. foreign policy, etc.

On Earth Peace
On Earth Peace is a movement grounded in the Church of the Brethren. They are following the teaching of Jesus Christ to renew and live out their biblical and denominational heritage of peace.

The Way of Peace
Online worship resources.

Peace Witness
Overview of programs

Peace Resources
For everyone; for Sunday School teachers; for youth, youth leaders, and parents; for pastors and congregational leaders; for ministry of reconciliation practicioners; for peace and justice advocates; for those interested in the peace heritage of the Church of the Brethren.

Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church USA
This full site includes a resource page for congregations with various categories of resources listed at the bottom, including:

Sermons (collected since 1999), Worship resources, and Prayers.

Restorative Justice Online Chapel

Articles, sermons/speeches, denominational resources, and prayers from the Book of Common Prayer-- materials from Judeo-Christian traditions concerning restoration and forgiveness.

Spirituality & Health: The Soul/Body Connection
This website is published by Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York 's oldest Episcopal Church. It offers a number of peace-related online resources.

Practicing Peace in Times of Conflict (Spirituality & Health, Sept/Oct 2003)
This issue includes online features and columns by Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Keating, Chris Hedges, and Thomas Moore. Free registration required.

The Many Facets of Forgiveness (Spirituality & Health, Winter 1999)
This issue includes features on forgiveness by Desmond Tutu, Helen Prejean, and others.

Self-Test on Forgiveness

Spirituality & Practice: Resource for Spiritual Journeys

World Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence
Click on “Resources.” Click on “Shared Resources." Click on "List by theme” and click on “Biblical –Theological Reflection” for some full-text resources. Others are throughout the list of resources.

Writings on Christian Nonresistance and Pacifism from Anabaptist-Mennonite Sources
by Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast, Bluffton University.
Nonresistance is a central practice for the Anabaptist heritage of Christian witness and discipleship.  At this location, there are links to writings by Anabaptist-Mennonite writers on the subject of nonresistance which are currently available on the World Wide Web. Includes: Confessional Statements, Theological and Biblical Studies, Church Life and History, Communication and Conflict, Sermons and Songs.

YES! Supporting you in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.

YES! Online.  Beyond War: What Kind of America?
Prayers and Poems

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Bibliography/other lists

Association for Conflict Resolution Spirituality Section

Bibliography

On Earth Peace (Brethren)

Way of Peace peace resources

 

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