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Climate Peace Circles in Nigeria
Climate change is increasingly experienced through its effects on livelihoods, access to resources, infrastructure, health, social relationships, and human security. Yet discussions around Climate, Peace and Security can often remain at the level of policy institutions and technical experts. The Climate Peace Circle (CPC) approach starts from a different premise: communities themselves have important knowledge about the risks they experience and should have meaningful opportunities to participate in understanding, discussing and responding to them.
We Must Relearn to Welcome the Stranger
While countries resist welcoming immigrants, going so far as establishing detention centers and deporting people to other locations, biblical teachings show Christians must oppose such harsh policies.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry died this week, and I find myself returning again to one of his poems I have loved for years, The Peace of Wild Things. The wild things can return us to a different rhythm, a peace that does not require us to deny what is happening around us. Perhaps they remind us that stillness itself can be a form of resistance to a world determined to keep us anxious, reactive, distracted, and afraid.
The Lives We Live and the Legacies We Leave Behind: Reflections on the Passing of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Ratko Mladić
The lives we live and the legacies we leave behind. Reflections on the passing of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Ratko Mladić.
Reducing War Games in Korea: A Step in the Right Direction
On Sunday, August 16th, US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered the Department of War to reduce the joint military exercises (between the US and South Korean militaries) on the Korean Peninsula. I’d like to give some nuance to this situation, because whatever Trump’s motives, this public statement creates a small window of opportunity to open peace talks to end the Korean War.
Trauma-Informed Forgiveness: Liberating the Oppressed, Reclaiming Agency, & Breaking the Cycle of Harm
Few words in the Christian vocabulary have been more distorted, weaponized, or misunderstood than “forgiveness.” In many church and societal contexts, forgiveness is asked from those who have been harmed—often quickly, publicly, and in ways that protect the comfort of the powerful and keep the oppressed in place. We need a liberative, trauma-informed, and biblical reimagining of forgiveness—one that centers survivors, breaks cycles of harm, and refuses to be co-opted by oppressive systems. Here’s what we think that looks like.
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.
Uganda’s Fractured Transition: When Political Power Seeks Sacred Legitimacy
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.
The Church Taught Me to Love My Enemies—Then Blessed Me as I Went to War
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.