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  • 29 Nov
    2007
    How forgiveness can transcend violent tragedy

    Following the 2 October 2006 shooting that killed five Amish girls and wounded five others in the USA, three investigators (Dr Donald B. Kraybill, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, Dr Steven M. Nolt, Goshen College, Indiana, and Dr David Weaver-Zercher, Messiah College, Pennsylvania) explored why and how the Amish expressed forgiveness in the wake of the shooting. The research methods involved face-to-face interviews with Amish people to probe their practice of forgiveness. In addition the researchers pursued Amish writings on forgiveness as well as historical examples when Amish people forgave those who wronged them. The investigators also reviewed hundreds of media stories and editorials on Amish forgiveness at Nickel Mines. Finally, the investigation compared Amish practices of forgiveness with broader studies of forgiveness in American society. The research was conducted from 1 November 2006 through to 1 April 2007. The results are summarised below and have been released in the new book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy (Jossey-Bass, 2007) - available from the Ekklesia online bookshop.

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  • 27 Nov
    2007
    Somalia solution must come from within, say churches

    A delegation of religious leaders mainly from the Horn of Africa, who have visited strife-torn Somalia, have stressed that a solution to the crisis there lies within the country and not outside. The Pope has also called for peace.

  • 26 Nov
    2007
    Pope backs Annapolis conference on Middle East peace

    Pope Benedict gave his support and prayers to a major peace conference that will gather in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, tomorrow, seeking steps toward a sustainable solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

  • 24 Nov
    2007
    Salaam Bethlehem - looking beyond the wall

    Salaam Bethlehem is touring in the UK throughout the season of Advent with performances until 22 December 2007. This is the story of a production which highlights the situation of a famous city and today's Palestinian Christians and Muslims.

  • 21 Nov
    2007
    Israeli peace activist arrives in UK to protest home demolitions

    Leading Israeli peace activist, Jeff Halper, from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, arrives in the UK on 22 November, with Palestinian Salim Shawamreh, who has had his house demolished four times by Israeli bulldozers.

  • 21 Nov
    2007
    Love your enemy: Within a divided community (the re-opening of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square)
    27/11/2007 - 19:00

    The St Ethelburga’s team reflect on issues of inter-religious co-existence as part of the events marking the re-opening of St Martin in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square.

  • 19 Nov
    2007
    Thanksgiving Mass for the Beatification of Franz Jägerstätter
    21/11/2007 - 19:00

    "Franz Jägerstätter is a prophet with a global view and a penetrating insight which very few of his contemporaries had at that time; he is a shining example in his fidelity to the claims of his cons

  • 19 Nov
    2007
    Bringing reconciliation home
    22/11/2007 - 10:00
    22/11/2007 - 16:00

    What are our societal conflicts in London and the UK and what needs to be reconciled? Is faith a factor in these conflicts and in what ways can it help us work with them constructively?

  • 19 Nov
    2007
    Settlements of conflict: The case of the West Bank
    19/11/2007 - 18:30

    Any future Israel-Palestine accord will have to resolve the issue of settlements in the West Bank and will be a central focus at the planned US sponsored Mid-East summit in November 2007.

  • 12 Nov
    2007
    Iraq and Afghanistan violated just war theory, says Williams

    On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams described the Western-backed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a tragic mess which failed to conform to the principles of 'just war' theory and brought great suffering.

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