Afghanistan and the Futility of War
By Rev. Ben Daniel, Pastor of Montclair Presbyterian Church, a PC(USA) Peace Church One way or another, any American Christian who professes an affinity for pacifism eventually must answer a difficult question: "what about crimes…
What is a Peace Church?
“A Peace Church is a church that… ...recognizes that war and militarism are inconsistent with the Gospel of Christ that calls us to love our enemies and pray for those that persecute us …recognizes the…
Listen to Winona LaDuke at the Treaty People Gathering
By Geoff Browning: I had the pleasure of hearing Winona LaDuke, an indigenous activist, author, and water protector, speak at the Tribal People Gathering in northern Minnesota earlier this month. The Treaty People Gathering was…Why I’m Going to Treaty People Gathering
Hundreds of people are attending Treaty People Gathering in Minnesota this weekend. Many of us are attending as part of an interfaith delegation with the support of GreenFaith, and some of us are members of…
We’re Hiring a Manager of Communications and Digital Organizing
The application period for this position is now closed. We are reviewing applications and no longer accepting new ones. The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship seeks a half-time manager of communications and digital organizing to create, implement,…
April 2021 Report from PPF Accompaniment Consejo Meeting
Written by Tricia Lloyd-Sidle, Accompaniment Consejo member At our last (March 2021) meeting, a leader from Agua Prieta said, “it means a lot that you ask, ‘how are you’? And you really care about the…
How I Learned We Need to Fund the World We Want to Live In
As we close our six-month deep focus on defunding the police and the eight-week Praxis Circles to understand this call, we are publishing reflections from PPFers on what they’ve learned through this process. This one comes from Deanna Hollas,…
What Humans Can Learn From Trees
As we close our six-month deep focus on defunding the police and the eight-week Praxis Circles to understand this call, we are publishing reflections from PPFers on what they've learned through this process. This one…
El rincón de Germán 1
"El rincón de Germán," which means "Germán's Corner" in English, is a new series of reflections from Germán Zárate Durier, a Colombian peacemaker. We share his reflections here in the original Spanish. A partir de…
Introducing the Inventory of Conscience Survey
Have you ever stopped to consider what you actually believe about war and violence? We are all bombarded (pun intended) with the use of violence on television, in movies and on the news. Most of…