If the people in that church are not actively surfing on the wave of waging peace in community, then the mission statement of the church is not just a joke but a lie.
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“Rediscovering the Prayerful Vision of Shalom” by Philip Kakungulu
Prayer is not a private ritual detached from life’s struggles but a courageous act of opening our beings to God, transforming how we live with others. In African spirituality, prayer is communal, binding us to God and neighbor (Mbiti, 1990). To pray with Jesus, as the disciples did, is to align our desires with His… Read more »
“Guilty Until Proven Innocent” by Wilson Gathungu
We welcome Wilson Gathungu, one of our peace warriors from Kenya. Many of us have known Wilson over the years and sometimes co-facilitated with him in peace and conflict transformation trainings. He’s done amazing work on the ground in some of Kenya’s flash points. In June 2021, I got an opportunity to attend Fayya Integrated… Read more »
“Your Right to Mental Health” by Veronika Voloshyna
As Veronika wrote this blog the war between Israel and Hamas has broken out. The war between Russia and Ukraine slogs brutally on. The wars in Myanmar, Sudan, and Ethiopia continue with little outside attention. All these conflicts create countless mental health casualties. Long after wars are over such casualties take a terrible toll on… Read more »
“The Kingdom of Heaven Beyond Evangelicalism” by Philip Kakungulu
For too long, the African church has been shackled by a colonial legacy that weaponized the “Kingdom of Heaven” to divide and dominate. From the 19th century, white missionary evangelicalism rated African belief systems as inferior, sowing discord across Uganda’s seven hills and beyond (Sanneh, 2009). This colonial evangelicalism birthed violent political games, from Uganda’s… Read more »