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The UMC announced a $50,000 donation to the National Park Service for developing a center at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, near Eads, Colorado. This article from The Denver Post highlights the Trinity UMC’s involvement in reconciliation dialogues between church members and American Indians each November.

Tom Porter, Co-Executive Director of JustPeace, was one of the many United Methodists in attendance at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica.

The 2011 Evans Lectureship “Re-visioning Justice” Revisioning Justice, the Second Evans Lectureship, will be held at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center in western North Carolina on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2011. Professor Howard Zehr, of Eastern Mennonite University, will be speaking and leading workshops on issues of restorative justice, criminal justice [...]

To thrive is already to know that decisions of great theological weight and importance may well hang on our ability to acknowledge deep conflict and respond to its presence with discerning wisdom.

Live web streaming of The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) and video highlights. Even though you weren’t able to make it to Jamaica, you can still experience what’s going on!

On March 6-8th 2011, JustPeace hosted its Annual Gathering in Jackson, MS to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of The Freedom Rides. Watch a video montage of some of the many highlights.

Dick Staub: The Aramaic word to forgive means to “untie.” Jesus knew that the fastest way to free himself from his enemies was to untie himself from their negativity through forgiving them.

Harriet Jane Olson – Reconciliation expresses an important concept in the Bible and in Christian teaching. We are invited to participate in God’s work by being reconciled to God and to others and by taking on the ministry of reconciliation.

Promoting reconciliation and ministering to a nation emerging from conflict are priorities for The United Methodist Church in Côte d’Ivoire, now that the battle for the presidency appears over.