We are deeply grateful to everyone who gives to support our work of gathering, equipping and mobilizing peacemakers throughout the world. Your generosity changes —and even saves—lives. If you’d like to increase the impact of your gifts, please consider the following. Thanks for all you do to support our shared work of creating peace rooted in justice!
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Embracing a world where peace, equity and justice prevail is to provide a stronghold amidst the tremors and earthquakes that bring death, despair and injustice in our communities. How we face these tremors will define our witness and our legacy for those following in our footprints.
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Here we are again at the end of another year that has brought as many possibilities as challenges for peacemaking in North America and throughout the world. Yet, this coming year, 2019, promises to be a year like no other in the life of BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz!
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One afternoon in 2009, at a Bible Study held as part of the Global Baptist Peace Conference in Rome, I had a sudden visceral rush as I realized that I was physically present in the seat of the Empire that had shaped and controlled the world of the book we were reading. Rome’s oppressive presence hovers over Jesus’ life from birth to death.
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Here we are at the end of another heart-wrenching year! Yet unlike the end of 2016, when many of us were experiencing huge amounts of disbelief, sadness and weariness at the outcome of a very contentious US political season, 2017, as difficult as it has been, has borne witness to the birth of new life for our organization in ways that we have not experienced before.
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Modern biblical scholarship has enabled critically thinking Christians to understand what the historical Jesus actually said and what was tacked on later to serve the interests of Rome and early church leaders, but those original messages remain politically inconvenient today.
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When did peace become a peripheral issue? How can ministers read the Gospels and think peace is an optional topic? When Jesus preached, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” he included preachers
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