Sentences with phrase «peacemaking does»

The work of peacemaking doesn't just happen on an international, political level; it happens in our neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

No matter how good your intentions, suddenly changing the subject can look less like peacemaking and more like a seizure if done poorly.

Peacemaking... called to do it.

Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the orphan and pleading for the widow.

Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands another reality — a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the orphan and pleading for the widow.

«If I knew this... would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn't have done it» he said, adding, «My life has been devoted to peacemaking.»

How do we find means or patterns of Christian life and practice that are faithful to the call for peacemaking in an increasingly violent and divided situation?

All of us who care about peacemaking and alternatives to a nuclear holocaust — those of us who still believe that God loves the world God created and expects us to do all we can to preserve and enhance life on earth — have a responsibility to pay attention not only to what these preachers are saying but also to what our own tradition teaches about «the last things.

When we talk about peacemaking and the «third way of Jesus,» people inevitably ask bizarre situational questions like, «If someone broke into your house and was raping your grandmother, what would you do?»

I began to understand that peacemaking is not a hippie - thing, a sit - on - the - sidelines - of - history cop - out, letting someone else or someone else's kid do my dirty work.

I know for a fact the way of Jesus does work — I use it all the time — a standard of peacemaking and not violence.

Hmmm... I don't know about the other beat.itudes, but there sure does seem to be a shortage of meek, merciful, and peacemaking Christians living in Red states.

So children do have an inbuilt set of peacemaking skills.

Those efforts did not always bear fruit, although charter sources indicate that the mayor's philosophical antipathy toward charters was more to blame than Buery's attempts at peacemaking.

How does peacemaking differ from mediation or case settlement?

Not every client, spouse, and other attorney is willing to agree to a more peacemaking approach, especially when they don't know much about it.

Adam B. Cordover is a trainer in two collaborative training groups: Tampa Bay Collaborative Trainers, with whom he provides Introductory and skill - based trainings and Peacemaking Practice Trainers, an international training team with whom he does practice - building trainings.

The way back to those rules for peacemaking is by doing it every day.