Peacemaking
Podcast: Overflow Episode 6 — Urban Ministry, Peacemaking, Non-Violent Parenting
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Anabaptism, Ministry, Multicultural Ministry, Osheta Moore, Parenting, Peacemaking, Women In Ministry
Dan Kent and Osheta Moore talk about Peacemaking (versus Peacekeeping), urban ministry, the impact of gentrification, non-violent parenting, and so much more! You can register of Osheta’s webinar HERE. You can follow Osheta Here. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0464.mp3
Podcast: Is Buddhism More Transformative than Christianity?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Peace, Peacemaking, Transformation
Greg looks at faith and transformation and compares Christianity with other worldviews. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0462.mp3
A Step Toward Racial Reconciliation
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Apology, Peacemaking, Racial Reconciliation, Sermons
In this sermon clip, Greg, as a representative of a white man in America, asks for forgiveness of people of color for all the harm that white America has done. This is not about disparaging…
Lighten Up: The Jesus Eraser
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Jesus, Peacemaking
“For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility…” Ephesians 2:14 Image by David Hayward @ www.nakedpastor.com.
Sermon Clip: Hijabs At The Gym
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Greg Boyd, Peacemaking, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
In the last message of Mixed Signals, we take a look at Islam and how Kingdom people should be responding to the growing worldwide Islamic movement. We explore the growing disparity between the life Jesus…
Sermon Clip: How Christians Should Respond to Ferguson
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Christian Life, Greg Boyd, Kingdom Living, Love, Non-Violence, Peacemaking, Sermons, Social Issues, Woodland Hills Church
In this clip from this weeks sermon, Greg Boyd comments on how Christians should respond to the events in Ferguson St. Louis and how that response should always be in love and to help heal…
Is Non-Violence a Key to Christian Discipleship?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Mennonerds, Non-Violence, Peacemaking, Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
For the first three centuries of the church, Christians understood that forgoing the use of violence and expressing God’s self-sacrificial love was central to discipleship. However, this mindset changed after the Church acquired power in…
Responding to Bullying
Category: General
Tags: Bullying, Non-Violence, Peacemaking
Robert Martin over at Abnormal Anabaptist posted this video on The Bullying Experiment. While I’m not convinced that shaming people who don’t intervene is an appropriate way to instigate change (shame rarely helps and you…
The Lion, the Witch and the War
Category: General
Tags: C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Peace, Peacemaking, Red Letter Christians, War
sandy Poore via Compfight Red Letter Christians featured some of Greg’s thoughts in their recent article entitled The Lion, the Witch and the War. The author of the article talks about the C.S. Lewis story and…
From Boston, With Love
Category: General
Tags: Boston Bombings, Cruciform Theology, Forgiveness, Jesus, Mercy, Peacemaking, T.C. Moore
We posted some of T. C. Moore’s reflections on the Open 2013 conference earlier this week. T. C. lives in Boston and was deeply moved by the violence and terror that came to his city….
Sermon Clip: Seeking Shalom
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Peace, Peacemaking, Shalom, Woodland Hills Church
In this sermon clip, Greg Boyd shows how the Anabaptists seek after shalom in every part of their lives. All of us seek for peace in our lives, but peace is just a small part…
Love in Unexpected Places
Category: General
Tags: Iran, Israel, Israel loves Iran, Peacemaking, Ronny Edry
Here’s a letter we received from a reader pointing us to this TED talk: Hi, My Name is Austin. I’ve been a podrishoner at Woodland Hills Church for the past 3 years and frequently visit…
Swords into Plowshares
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Peace, Peacemaking, Swords into Plowshares, War
Eneas De Troya via Compfight Kelley Nikondeha over at SheLoves wrote a penetrating essay on the work of peace and the prophet’s dreams of replacing the work of war into the work of feeding people. Peace…
A Distinctly Christian Take on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Category: General
Tags: Current Events, Israel, Jonathan Martin, Peacemaking
David Masters via Compfight Here is a great essay, written by a young kingdom revolutionary I’m just getting to know, Jonathan Martin. Jonathan addresses the hot topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict with biblical insight, theological…
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Peacemaking
We recently watched a show on Frontline (PBS) called The Interrupters. This two hour long documentary follows several “Interrupters” as they attempt to peacefully resolve conflict in their oftentimes violent neighborhoods in Chicago. The group…
The Way We Disagree Matters
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Kingdom Living, Peacemaking
Rachel Held Evans posted her reflections on the ways we interact over differences in Biblical interpretation. It’s an important topic as we live out the kingdom among one another in our polarizing environment. How do…
Where are the Blessed Peacemakers?
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Peacemaking
Religion Dispatches Magazine posted an article recently on embracing non-violence in the Christian tradition. In it, Elizabeth Drescher argues that the violent imagery in Paul’s writing accounts for a great deal of the violent posturing…
“I’m Angry, Too”
Category: General
Tags: Hate Speech, Non-Violence, Peacemaking, Politics
A reader (thanks, Jen!) sent us this blog post by Rachel Pieh Jones, an ex-pat from Minnesota living in Djibouti. She has some incredibly insightful and sad thoughts about the hateful responses to the recent…
Views of an Indigenous Theologian
Category: General
Tags: Evangelism, Missions, Peacemaking
It’s so important to approach evangelism with humility when building relationships with indigenous populations. This interview with Dr. Randy Woodley is an eye-opening and important voice for anyone with a heart for missions. From the…
On Driving and Unsurpassable Worth
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Peacemaking
Our friends the Livesay’s live and work in Haiti, and their blog is amazing. They posted a reflection today entitled On Driving and Unsurpassable Worth. It’s so worth reading. From the article: Annoyed with someone?…