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Peace Feasts

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Five years ago, I joined with Rick Love and Michael Ly to launch Peace Catalyst International, hoping to contribute to the flourishing of the global neighborhood by building friendships between Christians and Muslims. We wanted to focus more on common grace and common good rather than acting as if we had a common theology. We...

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The Sins and Sorrows of Selma

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A FATHER’S LOVES, A DAUGHTER’S HOPES On Monday, November 24, 2014, the world heard an agonizing cry from the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The St. Louis County prosecutor announced that a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on...

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Architecture and Design as a Peace-building Practice

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Every summer, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) brings together practitioners from around the world interested in augmenting their training in peace and conflict transformation. This year, a new course was offered on architecture and design as a peacebuilding practice taught by Deanna Van Buren, architect, and Barb Toews, practitioner...

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