Image two congregations or staff teams who work from one of the two perspectives/mindsets listed in column A or B. Which do you think creates the most positive outcomes? Which do you think models and invites an I-Thou culture and way of being?
Advent: A Time for Waiting and Longing
Longing during this season of Advent is the transfiguration of waiting and aloneness, the cyclical season, the womb of alchemy, the ritualistic recognition of aloneness transformed into longing. It is the defenseless interior core of a person receiving its overdue invitation from the mystery of the universe – the moon, the stars, the night horizon and the great tidal flows of love and life; all are from God. Advent is a sacred season of being and becoming the Oneness of what is! Immanuel, God with us and in us
Soul Care: Spiritual Journey Toward Healing and Well-being for Our Veterans and their Families
The church is uniquely positioned to give attention to the spiritual health of our veterans – an underserved component of veteran’s well-being. Churches have distinctive strengths and capacities for care. The church is the sacred community called forth for life and healing.
Veterans Day – “Thank you for Your Service”
Members of the church can be a great resource. Walking with veterans and their families on healing journeys is means of justice, and what faith communities are about in ministry. As the church lives the liturgy throughout the church year they experience anew the powerful reassurance of God’s grace and presence in the lives of that faith community. As the church lives out these words, they learn to trust others, to bind the wounds.
Do we really need conflict resolution?
The problem with “conflict resolution” is that it creates or reinforces the notion that conflict is bad, sinful and destructive and should not exist. Once we stop seeing resolution as an end in itself, we can understand more clearly the real nature of the underlying conflict — what it says about the system, the living body and its needs.
From Around the Web – Nov 5th, 2015
Here are some links to articles, videos and stories that JustPeace staff have enjoyed this week. We hope you enjoy them too!
Your donation to JustPeace will be matched for #GivingTuesday
We’re excited to announce that JustPeace has joined the #GivingTuesday movement. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of JustPeace, all donations for this year’s #GivingTuesday will be generously matched $1 for $1 up to $150,000 by Jerre and Mary Joy Stead.
Have you ever thought of your church as haunted?
Our congregations and we cease to be haunted when we cease to be afraid of our past; our present and our possible future, our horizon, or those we wronged, those we did not help or those who we think might wrong us. We forgive ourselves and our congregations forgive themselves by changing the pattern, and we change the pattern by forgiving others and ourselves. Our fear is the measure of our absence.
From Around the Web – Oct 2nd, 2015
Here are some links to articles, videos and stories that JustPeace staff have enjoyed this week. We hope you enjoy them too!
Resisting Interruption, Returning to the Story
(This is a guest blog post Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall. Ellen is a board member of JustPeace and an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of Theology).