Why white churches need to start chopping up guns
By: Rev. Deanna Hollas Another weekend of gun violence has captured the public’s attention as an 18 year old white male went on the hunt targeting Black bodied people shopping for groceries in Buffalo NY…
Nonviolent resistance is the only thing that will ultimately save Ukraine
By: Bill Galvin, PPF Activist Council Member and Counseling Coordinator at the Center on Conscience & War I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. I have known since then that violence and war…
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Statement on Ukraine: We oppose all war
The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship calls for an immediate halt to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a return to diplomatic talks. The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship (PPF) opposes all war. We maintain that the nonviolent realism…
“The Power of Beauty”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyQ4U8tyPA A Sermon by Rev. Ben Daniel at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland, California February 27, 2022 Luke 9:34-36 In my sermon last week, I spoke a bit about how the situation in Ukraine was…
A prayer for Ukraine
God, We sigh. We sigh because words cannot express our anguish, our hurt, our despair, knowing that siblings in Ukraine are fleeing their homes for their lives, that the cities and towns that hold memories…
We Don’t Build Peace by Avoiding Tension
Rev. Liz Kearny (she/her/hers) Liz is a member of the PPF Activist Council and Co-Pastor at Longview Presbyterian Church in Longview, Washington "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of…
What We Long For: A Prayer on January 6, 2022
These words were written by Rev. Lucy Waechter-Webb, PPF Manager of Communications and Digital Organizing, as an invocation for a Vigil for Democracy on January 6, 2022, the one year anniversary of the attack on…
Apply to be a PPF General Assembly Intern
Be bold. Nonviolence works! We are a wide network of peacemakers who engage issues of both national and international import. Our call is to be movers and shakers within the PC(USA) and beyond, encouraging one…
The Third Displacement
“It’s the problem,” the pastor said, “of land.” On an accompaniment visit to Apartadó, Colombia in August 2021, two of us from PPF had the chance to sit down with the Peace Commission of the…
Guns2Gardens: Become a disarming congregation
I recently attended a series of events in Houston TX designed to witness to the pain of gun violence and equip local faith communities to take action to end gun violence in Houston. One event…