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How do we deal with crime? It is inescapable. Since 1960, crime in the U. S. has increased 500% while the population has grown by only 41%. What is our responsibility to the victim and the offender? What is the Christian response?

Explore the inadequacies of North American criminal justice systems and discover the alternatives the Bible has to offer. Listen to stories of those involved in the system and from those pursuing a more "restorative justice." Hear clearly God's words of hope, challenge and counsel. Leader's guide included.

Copyright 1992 Herald Press

Learnings from Mennonite Central Committee personnel wrestling insightfully with what it means to build bridges across faith understandings.

Copyright 2007 Cascadia Publishing House

"Although Eller's touch is light, his goal is sharply in focus: to let his reader to adopt such a faith in God and His sovereign providence that he is willing to defer to Him who is the Great Avenger, rather than to take things into his own hands as far as His Cause is concerned, including one's own welfare..."-J. C. Wenger.

Revised 1981.

In Making Friends among the Taliban, childhood friend Jonathan Larson retraces Dan's nearly forty years in Afghanistan and, through interviews and eye witness accounts, relays Dan's incredible way of daily living. Facing famine, poverty, prison, and rifle muzzles-and across three decades of kings, the Red Army, warlords, the Taliban, and the American-led coalition-Dan found improbable friendships across the front lines of conflict and inspired small Afghan communities to find a better way of life. This inspirational narrative of Dan's life and friendships offers a model for living authentically wherever we are.

Copyright 2012 MennoMedia

Weaving Life tells of the way Dan wove relationships, joy, partnership, and understanding into his work in Afghanistan. Listen to stories about how Dan and his family confronted assumptions, discarded platitudes, and relentlessly pursued authentic relationships.

Eastern Mennonite University film students, intrigued by Dan's commitment and humility, embarked on their own journey to understand the story. Through interviews, Dan's photography, and their own artwork and video journals, the students discover the startling power of sustained commitment and what Dan called "fierce" love.

Dan's story is told by longtime friends Jonathan Larson and Daniel Taylor, his daughter, Anneli Terry, and his wife, Seija Terry. Also featuring Dr. Lisa Schirch, longtime peacebuilder in Afghanistan

Copyright Peacemeal Press

These collected essays, articles, sermons, interviews, and letters reflect the heartthrob of Christian leaders and thinkers as they struggle with profound questions of faith and seek to be people of peace in a world of terror. As seeds of faith and hope sprouting from the rubble, their reflections guide individuals and groups searching for meaning and hope in the midst of terror. "Questions for Reflections and Discussion" and resource lists make this useful for Christian education classes.

Here more than seventy Christian leaders struggle with the events of September 11 and the aftermath of individual, community, national, and international response. The writers in this journal of faith call for hope and practical peacemaking, exploring biblical themes of forgiveness, enemy love, and nonviolence as alternatives to revenge and militant "justice" in reacting to terrorism.

Copyright 2002.

Stories include a group of Muslim medical students establishing a health clinic for their low-income neighbors and a peace came for Christian, Jewish and Muslim children to build bridges of understanding at an early age.

Copyright 2012 Third Way Media

These pages cover the full spectrum of life--from the kinds of conflicts that all of us face, to the intensity of war and threats of extreme violence. The solutions each person finds here are unique--no two are exactly the same.

Copyright 2011 Real People Press

In the four decades covered, American Mennonites nearly doubled in membership. Their encounters with Protestant revivalism, organizational techniques, modernism, and World War I affected each group differently. Volume 3.

Paul Toews examines ways progressive Mennonites have slowed their absorption into American culture through creating institutional systems, refining and rearticulating ideologies, building ecumenical alliances, and developing a service and missional activism. Meanwhile, the Amish have formed a creative set of adaptive strategies that permit economic integration and social isolation.

An in-depth look at how Mennonites nad Amish were able to become a more visible and respected people than ever before during their more than 300 years in America. Volume 4.