Faith & Justice

Do you wish there was more peace in our personal and global lives?  

Join us as we learn about how to “wage peace” in our relationships, our communities, and our world. We are reading the book Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World by Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart. Here is how the authors describe peace:

“Peace is what the world will look like when individuals embrace their identity as God’s beloved and their vocation as seekers of their sister’s and brother’s shalom. Peace is what the world will look like when broken relationships are no longer broken, when unjust systems are renovated or replaced for the flourishing of all. Peace is what the world will look like when we understand diversity not as a problem to solve but as a beautiful reality to embrace such that we all become more fully alive.”

In this book, they present theological insights, real-life examples, and practical applications for everyday Christians to engage in personal and community peacemaking. Copies of the book are available to purchase and in the church library.

Please also join us when Jer Swigart is here on Sunday, April 27, at 3 pm, to facilitate a discussion of the book, as well as share about The Global Immersion Project which he and Huckins founded. To learn more about the Global Immersion Project, visit Global Immersion – Forming Everyday Peacemakers and Reconciling Leaders to mend divides

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”    2 Corinthians 5: 17-18

Whitworth Reads!

Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World

by Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart

https://www.ivpress.com/mending-the-divides

https://globalimmerse.org/mending-the-divides-book/

During the months of March and April, as a congregation we are grabbing a cuppa something warm and diving into this worthy and challenging book. Along the way, we'll have some time to discuss chapters before we host author Jer Swigart on Sunday April 27 at 3 pm for a discussion about the book. (More on that later!)

Book description:

What is peacemaking and how can YOU make a difference? Instead of disengaging from conflict and brokenness in the world, Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart invite us to move toward it. Not for the sake of resolving tensions and ending wars, but to understand that because peacemaking is the mission of God, it should also be the vocation of God's people. Peace is when severed relationships are repaired and restored. 

Using biblical and current-day illustrations of everyday peacemakers, Mending the Divides offers a theologically compelling, richly personal, and intensely practical set of tools that equip us to join God in the restoration of broken relationships, unjust systems, and global conflicts.