Prayers

• Prayer: We Pray for Peace
• Litany: 'I was hungry and you gave
  me food'
• Prayer Service: 'Runaway Train' A
  prayer for the lost and broken
• Prayer Service: Bless our lives
• Prayer Service: In praise of hands
• The Uniting Church Assembly Mission Prayer Handbook

Bible Study Resources

• Bible Study - Session 1: Violence and Vineyards
• Bible Study - Session 2: The Face of Love
• Bible Study - Session 3: The Paradox
  of Hope
• Brief Concordance: Peace in the
  NRSV
• Brief Concordance: Violence in the NRSV
• Pledge for Peace

Reflections

• Canticle of the Sun: Francis of Assisi, 1215
• Quotes from Catholic statements on violence
• John Paul II, 1979 Puebla Homily
• Quotes on war
• Imagine

Further Resources

• Wall Street Game
• World Trade Game
• Living Non-Violently
• The Principles of Non-Violence
• Mediation and Mediators
• Suggestions for Campus Ministers
• Suggestions for Youth in School and Parish Settings
• Living Peacefully

Over this violence thing...Resources for peace

Violence is a destructive force of immense proportion, which influences our lives at all levels – individual, societal and global. Violence refers to crime, exclusion, war, persecution, terrorism, detention without trial, slavery, environmental damage, bullying, discrimination, harassment, victimization… the list goes on.

Violence is often undertaken in the name of criminality, imperialism, nationalism, political expediency, power and control, and is often legitimized by the prevailing norms, values, belief systems, cultures and structures of relationships in our societies.

Violence affects our humanity and our environment. Our discipleship to Christ and our commitment to ecumenism requires that we work together – the whole inhabited earth – to overcome violence through peace and justice.

"... what God wants of you is to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God" Micah 6:8