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40 matches found, viewing page 2 of 2, goto page < 1 2 > Search Again| Living the Vision: Evangelism and Peace Snyder, Eleanor and Dave Rogalsky 1998 62 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-87303-323-X | 
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- Designed for personal reflection and journaling within a group-study process, this format is useful in adult electives, small group studies, or retreat settings. Encourages a witness that integrates word and action in daily life. 8 chapters.
| Living Without Violence Shearer, Jody Miller 1994 ISBN: 0-87303-222-5 |
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- This 5-session Bible study encourages youth to live nonviolently. Through storytelling, activities, and scriptural reflection, students discover there are many ways, outside of violence, to deal with anger. They will become familiar with nonviolent responses, discover the importance of honesty in times of conflict, and form a new perspective on their relationship with "the enemy."
| Making Peace with Conflict: Practical Skills for Conflict Transformation Schrock-Shenk, Carolyn & Lawrence Ressler 1999 200 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-8361-9127-7 |
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- Introduces various aspects of conflict and conflict transformation based on biblical and Anabaptist principles.
| Making War and Making Peace: Why Some Christians Fight and Some Don't Byler, Dennis 1989 97 p. Ages: 10-15 |
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- How Christian thought shifted in history to allow for participation in warfare, and what it would look like for Christians to once again use "the full armor of God." (Peace & Justice Series #8)
| The Meaning of Peace: Biblical Studies Yoder, Perry B. and Willard M. Swartley, eds. 1992 240 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0936273305 |
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| A Mennonite Statement and Study on Violence Barrett, Lois 1998 68 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-87303-339-6 |
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- This revision of the statement on violence presented at the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite Church assembly in 1997 includes personal stories and an extensive bibliography. Includes a 6-session study and action guide by Lois Barrett to help congregations put the statement into practice.
| Peace DVD Mennonite Media 2005 Ages: 13-18 | 
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- Designed for 6 sessions, this DVD has 24 segments that look at peace with God; in the community, nation, earth, relationships; the role of service; peace between cultures; where to draw the line on conscience; and related public policies. The website and study guide supply study questions, activities, and way to put beliefs into actions. In one segment, Calling for Peace, two women with vastly different opinions and on different sides of the Iraq war conflict begin to see each other as friends even though they don't agree. Youth are challenged to brainstorm solutions for conflicts they've experienced. Website: www.PeaceDVD.com
| Peace Heroes Neufeld, Christine 1996 Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-87303-306-X |
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- An active 5-session study that helps junior high youth challenge the violence around them by promoting heroes who live out Christ’s call to be peacemakers: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, John Perkins, and Muriel Lester. Sessions combine stories of peacemakers with Scripture.
| A Peace Reader Sider, E. Morris and Luke Keefer Jr. 2002 279 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 1928915302 |
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- "Societal pressures to accept violent solutions, to avoid the way of reconciliation, are difficult for many Christians to resist, even those in peace churches. This collection of readings joins the call to Christians to be peacemakers rather than to succumb to what is normal in the surrounding culture."
The book addresses national and international issues as well as tensions in families and congregations, and the treatment of criminals , the poor, and the unborn. Authors discuss biblical themes, church history, and practical applications and reflect on 9/11/01. Includes peacemaking stories. Each reading has an introduction with discussion questions. Authors include: JR Burkholder, G.H.C. MacGregor, Marlin Miller, Harriet Bicksler, Ronald Sider, Spencer Perkins, Chris Rice, Marlin Jeschke, Mark Twain’s The War Prayer, E. Stanley Jones, Miroslav Volf, Duane Friesen. Many chapters are pulled from other books, to represent a smattering of resource thought-provoking resources in various fields, with references for further study.
| Peace-Just Live It! Neufeld, Christin 1995 105 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Ten engaging sessions explore topics such as peace in the Bible, family violence, racism, criminal justice and reconciliation, gender relations, conscientious objection, and more. Includes step-by-step teaching plans and reproducible student sheets. Highly recommended.
| The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium Wink, Walter 1999 224 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0385487525 |
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- All institutions tend toward domination. When they serve their own ends, Christians need to confront them with nonviolent action and prayer. This "non-force action" has plenty power to change the world.
| Questions that Refuse to Go Away: Peace and Justice in North America Franz, Marian C. 1991 104 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-8361-3558-X |
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- Can civil disobedience be divine obedience? How do Christians stir governments to provide justice and well-being for all? Marian show how a growing emphasis on the military actually breeds insecurity as it consumes resources and widens the gap between rich and poor. Discussion questions. (Peace and Justice Series #13)
| Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity. Sider, Ronald J. 1997 300 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Conservatives blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is wrong? Both. Sider explains complex causes of poverty, and then he presents practical, workable proposes for change, proposals that should be taken up by those seeking to follow Jesus today.
| Shalom: The Bible's Word For Peace Yoder, Perry 1993 222 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0916035913 |
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- Study of shalom in the Old and New Testaments. Yoder also explores the relationship between shalom and other major biblical themes such as salvation.
| Steps Along the Way: Living as Peacemakers in a Violent World Arnow, Jan and Arch Taylor 2003 55 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- This resource comes from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, with 8 sessions on various aspects of peacemaking: peace in the family, bullying, poverty, justice without vengeance, hate crime, war, and consumption. Each session has a one-page theological reflection, a "think piece," and suggested activities for a one-hour format. Sessions each include ample lists of other books and websites.
| Thermostat Mennonite Central Committee 2004 Ages: 13-18 |
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- This DVD includes 33 sessions in 7 units: Peacemaking, Imagination, Allegiance, Security, Terrorism, Camouflage and Nonviolence. Sessions include Bible studies, role plays, personal stories, images, video clips, dramas, handouts, background reading, etc.
| Threatened with Resurrection:Self-Preservation and Christ’s Way of Peace Amstutz, Jim 2002 1112 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0836191927 |
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- Examines biblical texts to show how Christ’s way of peace challenges the assumption of physical protection. This allows people of faith to proclaim that when threatened with death, we are really threatened with resurrection.
| The Way God Fights: War and Peace in the Old Testament Barrett, Lois 1987 78 p. Ages: 10-Adult ISBN: 0836134478 |
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- Explains the concept of holy war in the OT and challenges the notion that the OT supports warfare. (Peace & Justice Series #1)
| When Good People Quarrel: Studies of Conflict Kreider, Robert & Rachel W 1989 190 p. Ages: 16-Adult ISBN: 0836134699 |
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- Present-day and biblical cases invite us to play peacemaker roles: studying and describing conflict, empowering a weaker party, confronting antagonists, bringing opponents together, or mediating disputes.
| Wisdom for Living: Racism/Wise or Foolish Living Shearer, Tobin Miller Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Regardless of the skin we are in, we are daily influenced and shaped by the forces of racism. Our Christian commitment calls us to seek justice where there is only injustice, to bring hope where there is only despair, and to speak truth where there are only lies of racism. Although thousands of years old, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Proverbs raise questions and point to answers that arerelevant to the youth of today. A comparison between biblical wisdom and contemporary wisdom of the streets will provide multiple opportunities for discussion.This teacher’s guide comes with reproducible student sheets.
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