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64 matches found, viewing page 3 of 4, goto page < 1 2 3 4 > next page Search Again| 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.
| The Path of Most Resistance Miller, Melissa 1982 239 p. Ages: 14-Adult |
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- Stories of ten Mennonite conscientious objectors who refused the draft during the Vietnam War.
| Peace Be With You Lehn, Cornelia 1980 126 p. Ages: 9-15 ISBN: 0873030613 |
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- Over 50 stories from the first century to the twentieth about people who chose to "overcome evil with good."
| 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 is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation Wink, Walter 2000 295 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 1570753156 |
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- An inspiring collection from the past 85 years that provides helpful glimpses into various peacemaking contexts, providing a sense of loving and thoughtful continuity for peacemakers today. Included are: Gandhi, A. J. Muste, Thomas Merton, Shelley Douglass, Martin Niemoeller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lanza del Vasto (leader of nonviolent movement in France), Andre and Magda Trocme, Thich Nhat Hanh, Danilo Dolci (known as the Gandhi of Sicily), Vincent Harding, and more. Sections include: The Vision of Peace, Witnesses for Peace, Spirit of Peace, Interracial Justice, Nonviolence in Action, and the Path of Reconciliation.
| 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 Politics of Nonviolent Action Sharp, Gene 1973 3 vol Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 087558070X |
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- Thorough analysis of nonviolent action in history. Vol. 2 gives 198 different types of actions, with historical examples.
| 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.
| Seven Brave Women Hearne, Betsy 1997 22 p. Ages: 5-9 ISBN: 0688145027 |
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- Noting that "in the old days, history books marked time by the wars that men fought," Hearne tells stories of seven women in her family who "did great things" without fighting in the eight wars that framed their lives. For instance, the first chapter begins, "My great-great-great-grandmother did great things. Elizabeth lived during the Revolutionary War, but she did not fight in it... .Elizabeth was a Mennonite." The brief text goes on to describe her journey, in a wooden sailboat, from Switzerland to America. The oil paintings are full of color, light, and movement. Strong women, pacifism, and genealogy are woven together to make an attractive book that may inspire its readers to delve into their own family histories. Read this book along with Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson to add a similarly rich African-American ancestry traced back through the women.
Read this book along with Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson to add a similarly rich African-American ancestry traced back through the women.
| Stanley Hoff, Sid 1962 64 p. Ages: 4-8 ISBN: 0064440109 |
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- Stanleywas not like the other cavemen who were tough and carried clubs. Stanley liked to plant seeds and watch them grow, and paint pictures. Read about how Stanley shows the other cavemen how to live a better life by being nice to each other and kind to animals.
| 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.
| Ted Studebaker Moore, Joy Ages: 8-12 |
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- Ted goes to work in Vietnam during the war without taking sides. What happens?
| 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.
| Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America Bush, Perry 1998 362 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0801858275 |
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- Traces the evolution of the Mennonite response to modern warfare from alternative service in WWI to Vietnam demonstrations, with the theological, social and cultural background.
| Victories Without Violence: True Stories of Ordinary People Coming Through Dangerous Situations Without Using Physical Force Fry, A. Ruth 1986 88 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0943734061 |
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- Originally published in 1939 in England, Jennifer Goodwin writes in the preface to this American ed.: "Statistics show that people with guns in their homes are far more likely to be injured or killed...and our billions of dollars of military hardware not only haven’t made us feel secure, but in numerous confrontations we have been helpless to protect out citizens abroad... .The reappearance of similar events during so many different times and places suggests that they may reveal universal truths... .Ruth Fry revised the book and added new stories for more than a decade. In the course of over a year’s recent research on the psychology of violence, I myself have learned of many comparable ones. We are shown here that there are forms of power we have been ignoring or downgrading for centuries, that physical force is not the law work in human affairs."
| Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th century Practice and 21st Century Potential Gene Sharp 2005 598 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0875581625 |
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- "Senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts Gene Sharp and his team of like-minded researchers apply 50 years of history, academics, and practical experience to present Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential, a meticulous accounting of how nonviolent methodologies can combat dictatorships, war, genocide, and oppression. Waging Nonviolent Struggle is particularly valuable in its use of logic and close analysis of specific historical cases of nonviolent struggle to debunk common myths concerning the practice. Such myths include the contention that nonviolence is ineffective against dictatorships and genocide, or that nonviolent methodologies rely upon an appeal to the moral character of the opponent ....."--Midwest Book Reviews www.midwestbookreview.com
| War Preventin Works: 50 Stories of People Resolving Conflict Dylan Mathews 2001 110 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 095113616X |
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- Fifty brief, but informative, concrete, documented examples of peacemaking in violent contexts around the globe--before the violence, in escalating violence, full-blown violence, contained violence, and after the violence...
| The Warrior's Challenge Jackson, Dave & Neta 1996 145 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 155661473X |
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- Peaceful Moravian natives face aggressive white settlers and tribes as they search for a safe place during the war in 1756-63. David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary, moves with them.
| 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)
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