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  • Report of the Deputy General Secretary
    Pro-war and anti-war demonstrations/rallies are being held, with the anti-war efforts drawing millions of people around the world. As we pray we are honoring God, expressing to God our faith that God
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  • God at War: A Catechism of Salvation History
    The Red Sea The term [hebrew text] "Red Sea" is not an innovation by deuteronomistic tradents, since it already occurs in the Song of the Sea when Pharaoh and his army are described in Exod 15:4 as be
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  • Notions of Just War in the Middle Ages
    The focus of just-war, according to medieval Christian tradition, as endorsed by St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Acquinas, makes a distinction between "resorting to just war" ("just ad bell
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    In this spirit, the World Council of Churches created the Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace, 2001-2010. When we Americans remember wars, we like to remember World
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  • The Power and Promise of Peace: A Message for the Peacemakers
    † In this spirit, the World Council of Churches created the Decade to Overcome Violence:† Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace, 2001- 2010. When we Americans remember wars, we like to remember Wo
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  • Bible Study 2 by Aruna Gnanadason
    I want to here acknowledge and salute the women of the US, particularly women of the churches, for your courageous and strong voices and actions in protest of the war. But in this case the action of
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  • Bible Study 2"Celebrating Hope and Life through Social Action"
    I want to here acknowledge and salute the women of the US, particularly women of the churches, for your courageous and strong voices and actions in protest of the war. Largely because of the pressure
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  • War
    9: 4-7). Indeed, Holy War and the Warrior God are theological images especially prominent in the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua. Instructions for war are specifically discussed in Deut
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  • Report of the Deputy General Secretary
    Jesus gave the disciples his peace as a gift: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. The cycle of peace involves acceptance of Jesus’ gift, responding to the call to be peacemakers or to do
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  • RESPONSIVELY YOURS: CALLED TO MAKE PEACEMarch Response Magazine
    Opposed selling war bonds at church events during World War II; and ? At the beginning of World War II, Dietrich Bonhoeffer raised hard questions about peace. Jesus said: AMy peace I g
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  • EXODUS
    Narrator #1 – Despite Wesley’s passionate efforts against slavery, White American Methodists gave in to slavery as Bishops excused their own slave owning because their wives inherited the slaves. Alle
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  • God at War: Crossing Over The Jordan River
    The close relationship between the Red Sea and the Jordan River has long caught the attention of scholars. There are clear differences between the accounts of the Red Sea and the Jordan River crossin
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  • Christian Campaigns against Others
    Attempts to purify the church and society also led to efforts to rid the Christian world of all non-Christians, who were considered "infidels. " This included Jews, Muslims, and people labelled pagan
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  • To Know Children, To Know God: Bible Study by Hea Sun Kim
    We are all children, of our parents, we are all children of God. One day, Jesus called one of these children into his presence and said, "unless you become like children, you will never enter the kin
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  • To Know Children, To Know God (Bible Study)
    One day, Jesus called one of these children into his presence and said, "unless you become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!" In knowing children, I do not mean just "studying
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  • Are We Closer to Peace Today?: United Methodist Women Continue Call for Prayer for Peace
    † When we pray for and stand for peace, we pray and stand against all conditions, mentalities and institutions that breed and nurture war and injustice. In 2003 during Lent and Easter, we prayed for
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    United Methodist Women has carried out a prayer campaign since the Lenten Season of 2003, the start of the Iraq War. When we pray for and stand for peace, we pray and stand against all conditi
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  • Responsively Yours: Rules of War, Prayers for PeaceResponse Magazine July-August issue
    ” As citizens of the United States, we proudly claim that in the 20th century our nation led the way in creating international mechanisms that seek to eliminate torture. Throughout history, Christian
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  • Thoughts Upon Slavery by John Wesley (1774)
    In 1540, Charles the Fifth, then King of Spain, determined to put an end to Negro slavery; giving positive orders that all the Negro slaves in the Spanish dominions should be set free. Such is the na
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  • Women
    And with the beginning of the war on Iraq, the denomination’s one-million-member United Methodist Women will continue their prayer campaign, praying even more fervently for a quick and peaceful resol
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