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In this short video, Tom Porter gives a summary of Matthew 18, a Gospel that is a book of instruction to the early church. Here is where the scripture puts flesh and blood on the bones of the Great Commandment and on our calling to be reconcilers.

This is the tenth and final installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

This is the ninth installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

This is the eighth installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

This is the seventh installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

This is the sixth installment of a 10-video series that JustPeace is producing around the release of Tom Porter’s book, The Spirit & Art of Conflict Transformation: Creating a Culture of JustPeace.

As a Jesuit, I have another strong anchor drawing me toward respect for persons, even those most opposed to me and all I hold for true, and recognition of their dignity.

Scriptural principles in the New Testament have much to say not only about the value of settling disputes outside of court, but also about the spiritual ramifications that are inherent in how we respond to wrongs.

If we believe that God is the creator of all life, then we cannot assume that some lives have more value than others. We cannot therefore assert with honesty that God has more love for some people than for others or that God would support violence against some members of creation in order to protect others.

After thirty years of teaching Christian ethics I felt a deep need to build a communion table for my seminary’s chapel. The words of ethics had to find expression in the wood of a table. For many years we ethicists had assumed that people could work off of a spiritual capital derived from worship, but [...]