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Reimagining Peace: From Peacebuilding to the Common Good
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.
Justice at the Heart of God's Reign
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.
A Shalom-Centered Worldview “Belief Tree”
Our worldview influences our beliefs, values, decisions, and behaviors. So by visualizing these connections, we can better understand the relationship between what we believe at the deepest level and the “fruit” that our lives produce. Here’s what a truly shalom-oriented worldview looks like.
Shalom Undone: Sin, Death, and the Cycles of Harm that Enslave Us
For many, sin is an uncomfortable topic, one that evokes guilt, shame, or even avoidance. Within much of the Christian tradition, sin is often framed as a list of personal moral failings—lying, greed, lust, or anger—reducing it to a running tally of personal mistakes. Salvation, then, is commonly understood as God’s forgiveness for these moral failings and a guarantee of one’s place in heaven after death. It reduces faith to a transactional system of guilt and pardon and leaves in its wake unaddressed questions about why, if sin is about the personal misdeeds of individuals, the world is still so very broken.
Peacebuilding: A More Christlike Witness
A few questions that we keep getting have to do with the relationship between peacebuilding and Christian witness. Is peacebuilding supposed to lead to witness? Does Christian witness simply not matter in light of so much division and conflict? What is Christian witness? Is it mainly about expressing religious convictions through our words? Or is it about serving as a living example of one’s faith? Read on to see our answers.
What We Mean By "Shalom"
We talk about “shalom” a lot, and it’s a driving force behind what we do and why. It’s also one of our core values as an organization, so we got our staff together and wrote this post to articulate the centrality of the biblical concept of shalom in how we understand God’s work in the world and our calling as Christians.