A Shameful Legacy

by Elaine Enns Sojourners, Dec 2012, 1 p. Elaine describes the horrific history of the Indian Residential Schools and her experience attending the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Halifax, NS and Saskatoon, SK, and the profound ethos of ritual, care and attentiveness to history, trauma and healing she found there. Full Article: A Shameful…

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.