Introducing the Rick Love Peace Award
“Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
- Hebrews 10:24
To honor the legacy of our co-founder Rick Love, who passed away one year ago, and to spur others on toward love and good deeds, we are establishing the Rick Love Peace Award to be presented in 2021. This award will honor those who creatively cross divides to build peace, exhibiting the same character and courage displayed by Rick. We envision multiple $1000 awards to encourage and empower community peacebuilders. Procedures for nominations will be announced in the coming months, but in the meantime you can make a year-end gift to sponsor this project and carry on Rick's legacy.
Check out our Giving Catalog for this and other projects in the works for 2021.
THANKS TO A MATCHING GRANT, ALL GIFTS THIS MONTH WILL BE DOUBLED UP TO $5,000.
Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to go on a “Holy Land Pilgrimage.” This short trip, my first time in this so-called Holy Land, forever changed the way I read Scripture. I believe it was Saint Jerome in the early 5th century who first referred to this experience as reading the fifth gospel, a term I have heard repeated by many. But I also discovered what I might call a “sixth gospel.”
The following is a reflection by Bryan Carey, building on a conversation with Bishop Zac Niringiye. Bishop Zac is a Ugandan theologian and retired Anglican bishop whose decades of ministry, theological leadership, and public advocacy have made him a respected global voice on faith, justice, and the church’s public witness. His work challenges the church to embody the gospel through justice, humility, and solidarity rather than power and control.
Uganda is in crisis, and the world needs to pay attention. In this blog, an East African researcher and friend of Peace Catalyst discusses Uganda’s situation and what democracies around the world must learn from Uganda before it’s too late.
Over the years, I have heard a lot of talk about people deconstructing their faith, and my wife Lucy and I have helped people on their own journeys. Here, I want to focus a bit on my own faith journey and the process I’ve gone through, which I believe has involved three phases of deconstruction.
The argument for nonviolence needs to come from people who know what violence actually costs, not just from scholars who've read about it. Veterans need to be the primary voices calling the church to account. So here’s what I think the church actually owes to veterans and others, and what it looks like for the church to repent.
God’s reign has a direction: it moves toward the poor, the captive, the oppressed. It moves toward a world where the widow isn’t preyed upon, the orphan has an advocate, the stranger is welcomed rather than exploited. This is what the prophets meant by God’s justice.
Today, June 20, is World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the UN to honor refugees around the globe and the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country in order to escape conflict or persecution. So today we have some resources and ways to move toward solidarity with refugees from our team peacebuilder Jennie Telfer, who collaborates with Trauma Rescue Aid (TRAID), a refugee-led peacebuilding organization providing mental & physical health care, food support, and other forms of tangible aid to Sudanese families who fled the war in Sudan.
The unended Korean War persists because of fear and the fact that our leaders (in the USA, South Korea, and the DPRK) have so far been unable to sustain a de-escalatory spiral, but that can change. Here are some ideas for US actions and how you can advocate for them.
The Gospel is not just about going to heaven when we die, but the coming of God's kingdom of justice, peace, and dignity for all people; and it’s this conviction that has brought me to work with Peace Catalyst as IT Manager.
Over the past three months, I had the opportunity to be part of a local project called “Safe and Strong – Women Shaping Communities,” through which I led Kintsugi workshops in different towns across Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, symbolizes the idea that our scars do not have to be hidden, but can instead become part of our strength and beauty. In many ways, that philosophy reflected the women I met throughout this journey.
