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Congregational Resources for Peacemaking
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Disciples
Peace Fellowship seeks to provide resources for individuals and
congregations seeking to
promote peace and justice. DPF Executive Committee Member
Carolynn Miller, a seminary student at Candler School of Theology, has
compiled an extensive set of resources for personal and congregational
use in several directories listed below. We also include here
links to official
statements by DPF and others on issues of peace and justice, practical
guides to peacemaking, and suggestions for peace- and justice-related
Bible Study and liturgy. Check back regularly for new resources
that you can use for your Bible study, youth group, congregational
worship service, or personal devotion.
Peace Resource Guides:
- Peace Sunday Resources
- DPF Executive Committee member Rev. David Downing has prepared
resources for the Disciples for Peace Sunday, the second Sunday of
Advent.
- Call to
Action - A call to action for peace by DPF Executive Committee
Member Carolynn Miller.
- Worship
Resources - The resources here can be
used to help develop worship services. There are links to
numerous sources of prayers, litanies, readings, sermon ideas, and
music.
- Christian
Education Resources - This page contains numerous links and a
bibliography for Christian education for peace and justice.
- Family
Resources - Resources for families to use for peace and justice.
- Denominational
Peace Resources - A comprehensive list of peace fellowships and
websites in various Christian denominations.
- Ecumenical
Peace Resources - A list of ecumenical peace organizations and
resources.
- Interfaith
Peace Resources - A list of peace organizations in
other faiths and of interfaith peace organizations.
- Secular
Peace and Justice Organizations - A list of secular organizations
working for non-violence, human rights, children's interests, handgun
control, and other causes related to peace and justice.
- Church
Conflict Resolution - The links and publications here are useful
for peacemaking within the church. These sources can help with
church conflict resolution.
- Bible Verses
for Peace - A helpful collection of Bible verses relating to
peacemaking, conflict resolution, nonviolence, and reconciliation?
- Disciples
Peacemaking - Carolynn Miller provides a useful essay about the
history of peacemaking in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Additional Materials:
- Peace Devotional
- This Peace Devotional was developed for use by the DPF Executive
Committee. Use it to help your own group prayerfully reflect on
peacemaking.
- What Should the
Church do About War? - DPF Executive Committee member Rev. Craig
Watts offers a reflection on how the church should respond to war that
was published in the December 2006 Disciples
World.
- Ten Steps to Peace
- These ten steps for individuals to livc as peacemakers are drawn from
a speech by Rev. Michael Kinnamon.
- Peter Ainslie on
Peace - DPF Executive Committee member Rev. Craig Watts has written
this essay on the ideas of Peter Ainslie, Disciples pastor and founding
president of the Council on Christian Unity, which will be printed in Encounter.
- Mothers' Day
Proclamation - These words by Julia Ward Howe are as relevant today
as they were when first written in 1870.
- Prayers
for Peace - A collection of Prayers for Peace from the Episcopal
Peace Fellowship.
- Peace
Resources for Children - The United Methodist Camping and Retreat
Ministries has put together a useful collection of resources for
helping children and youth cope with issues of war and peace.
- DPF Statement on
Iraq - The time for peace is now. The DPF Executive Board
adopted a statement on the War in Iraq back before the outbreak of
hostilities in 2003.
- A Season for
Nonviolence - The Denver Area Task
Force for A Season for Nonviolence has developed 64 ways that you can
make a daily commitment for peace over a 64 day period.
- Nonviolence
Bibliography - A bibliography of writings on non-violence from Pace
e Bene.
- Parents
Children and War - A great resources from the National Center for
Children Exposed to Violence on how to talk with your children about
war.
- 35 Ways to Live
More Faithfully - Rev. G. Bennett of the United Church of Christ
offers 35 ways to live more faithfully as a Just Peace or Peace with
Justice Congregation.
- Pillars of Peace
- The National Council of Churches offers 7 principles that can serve
as a basis for building peace in the 21st Century.
- Peace
Points Starters - The Lutheran Peace Fellowship offers great ideas
on how to organize a peace-focused youth group event.
- Biblical Basis for
Peace - Peggy Cowan, of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program,
offers a brief review of scriptural support for peacemaking.
- Litany
for Peace - The Fellowship of Reconciliation offers this litany for
peace the can be used in worship services.
- Jesus
Teaches Peace - Every Church a Peace Church provides a great Bible
study of Jesus' teachings on peace.
For
more peace resources, check out the websites of other peace and justice
groups listed on our Peace Links page.
If you have prayers, sermons, essays, or other peacemaking resources
that you would like to have posted here, please email them to the DPF Web Administrator.
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