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61 matches found, viewing page 2 of 4, goto page < 1 2 3 4 > next page Search Again| Gandhi Demi 2001 Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 0689841493 | 
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- Beautifully illustrated picture book of Gandhi’s life—being thrown off the train and developing satyagraha (“truth force” or “soul force”), aspects of his family, the nonviolent resistance actions he led against injustice until his death.
| The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It 2002 60 min. Ages: 13-Adult | 
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- The story of WWII COs, why they refused to fight, and how they worked for civil rights, prison and mental health reform. Includes historical footage and interviews with CO's.
| The Great War Lutz, Normal Jean 1998 144 p. Ages: 9-12 ISBN: 1577484118 |
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- Fictional account of a Minnesota family of German descent during WWI, when anything German was rejected. Teenager Carl and his family try to figure out how to respond to mistreatment since they are Christians. Carl spends some time in the country where plain Mennonites live and he feels connected. He learns that, since they believe Christians shouldn't go to war, they are mistreated even more than his family. He eventually is able to warn them when drunk men come to do them harm.
| Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking Gish, Arthur G. 2001 304 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0836191684 |
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- Sitting in an Israeli jail, standing in front of bulldozers, or confronting abusive soldiers--Art shares experiences such as these from his years working with Christian Peacemaker Teams and Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers in Hebron, West Bank.
| Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes Dave and Neta Jackson 2001 Ages: 6-Adult ISBN: 1556617127 |
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- These volumes include a short biography and sketch of heroes/heroines, along with three different episodes from their lives (each two-three pages). After each episode there is a saying related to a value, a scripture, and some questions for you to think about together.
Fascinating glimpses into the lives of people who were taking their faith seriously.
Vol. 1: Gladys Aylward (missionary to China), William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army founders), David Livingston, Martin Luther, Menno Simons, Mary Slessor (missionary to Calabar--southern Nigeria), William Tyndale, Harriet Tubman, and more.
Vol. 2: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Elizabeth Fry (Friend ministering in prisons), Festo Kivengere (Uganda), Eric Liddell, Watchman Nee (China), John Newton, John Perkins, Amanda Smith (African-American ministering in England, India, and the U.S.), Corrie ten Boom, David Zeisberger (minister among Native Americans), and more.
Vol. 3: Mary McLeod Bethune (African-American educator), William Bradford, George Washington Carver, Betty Greene (missionary pilot), Lottie Moon (China), Luis Palau (South America), St. Patrick, Rochunga Pudaite (India), Mother Teresa, and more.
Vol. 4: Ricky and Sherialyn Byrdsong, Ben Carson (African-American surgeon), Eliza Davis George (Liberia), C. S. Lewis, Samson Occom (Native American), Panditi Ramabai (India), Joy Ridderhof (Gospel Recordings), Romulo Saune (Peru), John and Betty Stam (China), and more.
| Hope Indeed!: Remarkable Stories of Peacemakers Gerald Shenk 2008 106 p. Ages: 16-99 ISBN: 1561486328 |
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- Stories from around the world, most in the last couple of decades.
| How the Children Stopped the Wars Wahl, Jan 1969 95 p. Ages: 7-10 |
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- A shepherd boy sets out to stop wars and persuades hundreds of children to follow his banner.
| How Christians Made Peace With War Driver, John 1988 94 p. Ages: 10-Adult ISBN: 0836134613 |
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- Follows Christianity from 90AD to 313AD while it opposed war, and what happened then. (Peace & Justice Series #2)
| I Heard Good News Today Lehn, Cornelia 1983 145 p. Ages: 6-12 ISBN: 0873030737 |
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- Stories of shalom--from all around the world, AD 39 to 1980--of people loving, caring and sharing in the name of Jesus.
| It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight Hornus, Jean-Michel 1980 325 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Demonstrates that the early church, up to the 4th century, consistently maintained the stance of enemy-loving and nonviolence. Includes final reflections on the meaning of this for our own violent age.
| The Journey Toward Reconciliation Lederach, John Paul 1999 206 p. Ages: 16-Adult ISBN: 0836190823 |
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- The author shares insight from years of work in international mediation and deep spiritual reflection on the task of reconciliation. Exciting personal experiences and understandings from the Bible inform specific ideas for improving our own peacemaking in the church and the world. Insights such as his "Unspoken Ten Commandments of Conflict in the Mennonite Church" bring to light humorously many ways we act, despite their being counter to our actual beliefs and to our physical and emotional well-being, and can help lead us farther along the journey toward reconciliation.
| Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and War (3rd ed.) Stassen, Glen 2008 224 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 082981793X |
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- Just Peacemaking is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually since 1992 to specify the 10 practical steps and develop the undergirding principles of this critical approach:
1. Support nonviolent direct action
2. Take independent initiatives to reduce threat
3. Use cooperative conflict resolution
4. Acknowledge responsibility for conflict and injustice and seek repentance and forgiveness
5. Advanced democracy, human rights, and religious liberty
6. Foster just and sustainable economic development
7. Work with emerging cooperative forces in the international system
8. Strengthen the United Nations and international efforts for cooperation and human rights
9. Reduce offensive weapons and weapons trade
10. Encourage grassroots peacemaking groups and voluntary associations
Originally published in 1998 and revised in 2004, this new 2008 edition contains a new introduction and conclusion, as well as updated contents.
| Lightening Time Rees, Douglas 1997 Ages: 10-13 ISBN: 0789424584 |
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- Tells of a young Quaker boy in Boston who meets abolitionist John Brown, leading him to question whether slavery or violence is worse. He ends up helping John and the reader weighs as well the issues of “when is violence justified?” (out of print, need to get interlibrary loan from your library)
| Lighting Candles in the Dark Marnie Clark 1991 213 p. Ages: 7-12 ISBN: 0962091235 |
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- Stories of courage and nonviolence, the power of love, acts of loving service, fairness and equality, and belonging and care of the earth, from a Quaker perspective. Some fictional.
| 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 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)
| Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism Driedger, Leo, and Donald 1994 310 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0836136489 |
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- Documents the dramatic shift among Mennonites from passive nonresistance to active participation in the political order and examines the ties between Mennonite peacemaking attitudes and a host of social and theological issues.
| Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys Yolen, Jane 2003 109 p. Ages: 6-10 ISBN:0152163913 |
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- From the intro: "for the longest time boys didn't know that being a hero was more than whomping and stomping the bad guy. They didn't understand that brains trump brawn almost every time; that being smart makes the battle shorter, ... and the triumph greater....Hero is a word for winner, not whipper; for smarty, not smarty-pants; for holding on, not holding back. Hero is about being clever, learning from your mistakes, being kind and compassionate, and finding good friends. Picking up a sword doesn't make you a hero--sticking to your word does....The true heroes are the ones who solve their problems---and the problems of the world--without ever having to resort to force..." At the end, the author describes the history of each tale, along with what she added in her versions.
| The Missing Peace: The Search for Nonviolent Alternatives in the United States. Juhnke, Jim, and Carol Hunter. 2001 322 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 1894710134 |
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- This book explores costs of war and it’s alternatives and reviews little-known facts about nonviolent examples in U.S. history, such as a plan for independence that would have avoided the Revolutionary War, but that lost by one vote (to avoid aspects that came about anyway, even with the war). The book portrays overlooked "original peacemakers," from Native American traditions; those involved in the anti-slavery movement, Civil War, reconstruction, and women’s rights struggles; as well as efforts during the wars (including the ones "to end all wars" and "to make the world safe for democracy") in the 1900s.
| A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder’s Nonviolent Epistemology ed. Grimsrud, Ted and Christian Early 2010 159 p. Ages: 18-99 |
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- Table of contents: Christian Pacifism in Brief--“But We Do See Jesus”: The Particularity of Incarnation and the Universality of Truth—On Not Being Ashamed of the Gospel: Particularity, Pluralism and Validation—Why Ecclesiology is Social Ethics: Gospel Ethics Versus the Wider Wisdom—Walk and Word: Alternatives to Methodologism—Meaning after Babbel: With Jeffrey Stout beyond Relativism—Patience as Method in Moral Reasoning: Is an Ethic of Discipleship “Absolute”?—John Howard Yoder on Diversity as Gift: Epistemology and Eschatology
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