Bruxy Cavey is the teaching pastor at The Meeting House, a church near Toronto. They are part of the historical peace church movement as Anabaptists, just like our church PeaceChurch Philippines, and are a great example of a church trying to look like Jesus. He has some great thoughts about…
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This Peace Theology category index lists all posts connected to my personal theology.
Theology simply means thinking or talking about the Creator.
Peace in Christianity, according to scripture, means wholeness and exists when all of creation is healed (aka. reconciled). That means reconciliation between human individuals and groups and:
- God
- Ourselves
- Others
- Creation
My peace theology is informed by my Anabaptist-Mennonite heritage, 25 years of reading scripture, 15 years of international travel, and 7 years doing peacebuilding, development and church-planting in armed conflict areas.
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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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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How does peace fit into the message of the church in the Philippines? I believe in the depth of my being that God coming to earth as the man Jesus of Nazareth is great news that all people can feel. If the message of the church is not good news…
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