My journey of discovering Biblical Peace Theology happened while reading scripture with Bangsamoro Muslim friends in the southern Philippines. I listened to their history, a history of oppressed people, from their perspective and in it I learned to hear Jesus message of peace, hope and salvation in the bible with…
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The Ancient people who wrote the scriptures believed that water, the ocean was a place of chaos and home for evil. This was the home of all that opposes order and God’s good creation. We see that oppose of this in the creation narrative where God creates order and brings order out of the ocean by using his athrity to shape it. In the same way as the creation story to Jesus shows his sovereignty over this chaotic storm in this narrative.
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Updated on Nov 8, 2017, originally posted on Nov. 4, 2014. I updated this post but the heart of it about how gun culture creates gun violence is still the same. When I was working in forestry as a tree-planter I used to fantasize about the wild west.…
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My estimate is that Peace Theology has been developing for around 70 years. I’m an Anabaptist-Mennonite and as one of the historical peace churches we found an infant version of its current form and it has been slowly maturing ever since. We have been reading it in our bibles for a very…
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