Justice that Restores Lives: A Conversation with Murphy Davis

By Elaine Enns Conspire, Nov 2010, 4 pp. Elaine interviews Murphy Davis from The Open Door Community in Atlanta, GA describing her tireless work with homelessness and death row, and her searing analysis of the prison industrial complex. (See Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol II for Murphy’s complete story and other contemporary witnesses.) Full Article: Justice that…

Women Clothed with the Sun: Sophia Facing the Beast

by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 27, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2), pp 28-44. 13 pp. This lecture means to honor the peace and justice work of women, and we would like to begin by naming just two. One is the woman who was cleaning…

Ambassadors in Chains: Ephesians 2-3 and M.L. King’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail

by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 26, 2009, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2) Fall, pp 4-27. 21 pp. One of the central questions that faces Anabaptist identity in every generation is: “What does it mean today to be a Peace Church?” In this year’s Bechtel…

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email us to PURCHASE This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. Paper, 190 pp, Orbis Books.

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. I: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. I: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by Ched Myers and Elaine Enns: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email BCM to PURCHASE This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians). Paper, 192 pp, Orbis Books.

Estranged Relatives: Mediation and Nonviolent Direct Action (A Conversation between Ched Myers and Elaine Enns)

By Ched Myers Mennonite Conciliation Quarterly, Winter. 4 pp. Elaine: Ched and I met at a peacemaking conference in 1997 where both of us were speaking. We sat in on each other’s sessions, appreciated each other’s work and began an interesting dialogue concerning how best to mitigate violence in our society. What we discovered was…

70 X 7: A Theology of Reconciliation

By Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. In: Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual, 4th ed.(Mennonite Conciliation Services, Akron, PA). 3 pp. Matthew 18:15-17 is well known in some Christian settings as a text that summarizes a process for handling conflict within the church or between church members. These verses, however, are too often interpreted in isolation….

Power, Gender and Conflict

By Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. A section in Making Peace with Conflict: Practical Skills for Conflict Transformation, edited by C. Schrock-Shenk & L. Ressler. Herald Press/Pandora Press. 8 pp This chapter looks briefly at the biblical commitment to equality, then examines three aspects of gender conflict today: equal hearing, equal opportunity, and equal respect….