Category Archives: Peacemaking

Kill Them With Kindness

September 13, 2016 – 10:51 am

A man who overheard women in the next booth talking pejoratively about members of his race decided to fight back – with kindness. The man, an aboriginal in Australia, had a pot of tea delivered to the ladies’ table, along with a note on the receipt that the tea was “compliments of the two aboriginals […]

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Forgiving Nazis: “I Highly Recommend It”

July 16, 2015 – 3:18 pm

Eva (Mozes) Kor was ten years old when she arrived from Hungary with her family at Auschwitz in May 1944. Despite experiments performed on her by the infamous Josef Mengele, she survived, and now runs a memorial to Holocaust victims in Terre Haute, Indiana, called CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors). Her […]

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Interviewed about Peacemaking

February 17, 2015 – 11:30 am

I had the pleasure today of being interviewed by my friend and colleague Zena Zumeta about Christian peacemaking, for a “radio” program that will air next Tuesday evening, February 24, 2015, at 8 pm ET. This is “blog talk radio” so anyone with a computer and access to the internet can listen to it. And […]

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Promoting Peacemaking

January 21, 2015 – 3:46 pm

The Association of Biblical Counselors recently shared some thoughts on “Resolving Conflict in Relationships Biblically.” Much of it is straight from Ken Sande’s The Peacemaker but summarized in a fresh way that might make more sense to some readers. The “seven ways out of conflict” is a new way to present ideas from James 4. […]

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Biblical Peacemaking Radio Interview

January 19, 2015 – 8:18 pm

Congregational conflict resolution is the theme of a series of blog talk radio programs on Tuesday evenings next month, sponsored by The Texas Conflict Coach. I’ve been invited as one of the guests, to be interviewed by my friend and colleague Zena Zumeta. Peacemaker Ministries Executive Director Dale Pyne will also be interviewed as part […]

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