Topic: peace

The Spirit of Jesus unites us across previously hostile boundaries and teaches us a language of liberating love.

True martyrs are those who are killed because their love, truthfulness and forgiveness are intolerable, not those who die killing for their cause.

Although often dismissed as utopian nonsense, Jesus’s teachings about non-retaliation and love of enemies are the key to the salvation of the world.

Jesus is the Word – what God has to say – who reveals true humanity and illuminates our path to becoming fully and truly human.

God’s visions of the future are often dismissed as unrealistic because our limited vision causes us to expect only more of the same.

The people who blame Jesus for increasing violence may be right. He has kicked out the foundations of our peace-keeping strategies, and now violent chaos will grow unless we learn the ways of love and mercy.

In a world increasingly divided between violent powers, Jesus leads a kingdom that is a radical peaceful challenge to both of them.

Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.

Jesus calls us to courageously follow him through a world of apparently apocalyptic violence towards the advent of hope and peace.

The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.

Salvation belongs to Christ alone, but those who have fought and died for other forms of salvation are among those with whom Christ identifies himself; fellow victims of the atrocity from which Christ is saving us.

The knowledge that we are loved by God and the tenacious sharing of that love break the power of the world’s systems to lock us in to destructive cycles overwork, over consumption, and compliance with injustice and war.