Throughout my life, I have read and studied a lot about World War II and the Holocaust. “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank. Elie Wiesel’s “Night”. BBC film “God on Trial”. Ben Elton’s Two Brothers. Reading or watching or visiting the museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” in Dnipro, my hometown,… Read more »
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Jesus Revolution
I watched two movies on a recent trip on an airplane, coming and going. The first was “Just Mercy,” which I’ll address in the next blog. The other was “Jesus Revolution.” “Jesus Revolution” is about the spiritual revival that took place among the hippies beginning in California but moving across the United States. The movie… Read more »
The Holy Spirit as Co-Facilitator
A major part of my peacemaking work over the years has been to facilitate trainings in various aspects of conflict transformation. In those trainings we used participatory experiential education, sometimes referred to as direct education. The facilitator is not a lecturer, passing on information in a top-down manner, though there may be moments within the… Read more »
“Carrying the Lament” by Kim Cecil
(We welcome Kim Cecil as a guest blogger. A graduate of the 2022 TCTT in Kansas City, she has a special aching heart over the war between Russia and Ukraine. We welcome her deep reflections on the topic of lament.) CARRYING THE LAMENT Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet… Read more »
“Women and War” by Sharon Buttry
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, my heart immediately turned to the many women I met there during my visit in 2019. Of course, everyone in Ukraine knows this war “started” eight years ago in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. And that this 2022 invasion was an escalation of a conflict that has… Read more »