Abolition: A Doorway to Beloved Community?
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…
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…
Endorsement of “De-Policing the Gun Violence Prevention Movement Policy Playbook”
The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid,the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6-9 Presbyterian Peace Fellowship (PPF) is…
Response to Insurrection
Yesterday (January 6, 2021) we witnessed an alarming insurrection in the US as pro-Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building. Their events yesterday were alarming, but not surprising given Trump’s rhetoric and threats and the…
Statement on Stony Point Center Transitions
Like so many, we in the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship are deeply saddened to hear of the new phase that Stony Point Center will be entering into where they will dramatically downsize and lay off all…
Permission to Grieve
Beloved peace seekers, We write while the result of the presidential election is still uncertain and may remain uncertain for some time. We wish we were with you to make you a cup of tea,…
PPF Mourns Peacemaker Albeiro Suárez after Assassination
We received the tragic news that a partner of the Iglesia Presbiteriana de Colombia, Albeiro Suárez, was assassinated last week. Albeiro was an ex-combatant of the FARC* and leader of a community in Meta in…