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John Paul Lederach shares insight gained from years of work in international mediation and deep spiritual reflection on the task of reconciliation. He draws on personal experiences in deep-rooted conflict and relates them to the biblical narrative of God seeking reconciliation throughout history. Conflict will come. We choose how we respond to it. True reconciliation must couple spiritual disciplines with personal, social, and international capacities to interact helpfully with conflict. The author accompanies people divided by hatred and violence on their journey to encounter themselves, each other, and god.

People in all walks of life and in various settings will find this book compelling and insightful. Lederach offers help for conflicted families, church communities, neighborhoods, and nations working toward healing and understanding.

Using anecdote, analysis, and scriptural reflection, Set Free offers language and insight to describe the names racism calls us. Six chapters define, illustrate, and suggest response to internalized racist oppression among communities of color. Three more chapters grapple with issues of internalized racist superiority among white communities. The final four chapters present practical principles and guidelines for working together across racial lines.

This collaborative project brings together decades of mutual experience dismantling racism in the Christian community and the combined perspectives of an African- American woman, a Mexic-Amerindian woman, and a white male. At times hopeful, consistently perceptive, and always grounded in real-life struggles, the authors have contributed a significant resource to those who are ready to take the next step beyond surface solutions to racism's insidious evil.

Copyright 2001.

The study guide is a teacher's dream with multiple activities, discussion questions, and resources as well as back ground information. The video is designed for use in three separate segments featuring one country and two stories in each. Closed Captioned.

A free map and rulers (up to 25) also available

The documentary (as shown on ABC-TV) tells riveting stories of persons who have faced anger and forgiveness in the face of violent or wrongful death, near-death from racial injustice, death of ancestors by genocide, and terminal illness.

Stories include: An Enemy Worse than Death-With the abduction and murder of their 13-year-old daughter, Wilma and Cliff Derksen begin the long path through grief toward forgiveness; Hospice Helps-Two families share how LifePath Hospice has helped them cope. Nathaniel, terminally ill, has to handle a deep family rift. The Ortiz family faces unresolved anger from their daughter's death by a drunken driver.; StoryKeepers: A Way to Heal-Susie Risho helps people heal from life's many griefs by telling their stories.; I'll Give You The Getting'-Watler Wangerin, Jr, Lutheran pastor and storyteller, shares the story of a couple facing cancer and how the wife dealth with her anger over her husband's illness.; Turning Hate Into Hope-The shooting of his brother by a white marshal, his own beating, and a bargain with God, led John Perkins to many years of work for social justice.; Forgive, But Remember-Lawerence Hart, a Cheyenne peace chief, tells the story of the Washita Massacre in Oklahoma in 1868 and a time of reconciliation 100 years later.; A Bigger Victim Than Myself-Bud Welch describes his journey from rage and temporary insanity to forgiveness after his 23-year-old daughter died in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Discussion questions included. Copyright 2001.

The 28 selected stories in this volume reveal something about who we are and who we want to be. They illustrate core values characterizing us.

Here you can read about peacemaking Native Americans, pioneer life, revolution in Russia, migration, optimistic David Toews, Annie Funk and the Titanic, a near hanging in Kansas, Orie Miller, dismantling racism, Emma Richards and Marilyn Miller, Peter Dyck, Mesach Krisetya, a new search for Clayton Kratz, and more.

As we come from varied backgrounds and learn to cooperate, we need to pool our stories. We draw together in heart and mind as w share events marking our life and faith, stories of people God has used in extraordinary ways.

God has redeemed us from failures and endowed us with a rich heritage of faithfulness. We can be agents of transformation as God translates our rich legacy into a vibrant and relevant witness.

This book is sponsored by the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana. Copyright 2001.

Beyond the News: Immigration will help you be better informed and grow in compassion. It will help you shatter the myths you may have heard about immigrants. Listen to people working with the legal aspects of immigration, those whose work involves providing shelter, an attorney, a chaplain, a paralegal, a doctor and more.

Stories from Sudanese, Nicaraguan, Iranian, and Mexican immigrants put faces with the facts.

The "consequences" have been amazing. These passionate Christians have participated in saving hundreds of refugee lives, traveled to war zones around the world, chased midnight trains bearing nuclear weapons, and endured imprisonment. They have experienced nationwide media attention.

These Christians, based at Jubilee Partners in Comer, Georgia, have experienced an ever-deepening commitment to being channels of God's love in a violent world. Through sharing their story, Don Mosley with Joyce Hollyday invites thousands more Christians to join them in this effort.

Winner of Pax Christi USA Honorable Mention Book Award.