Explore the Christian peace tradition
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Christian Peacemaking: A Beginner’s Guide
The Gospel foundations of peacemaking, forgiveness, enemy-love, justice, and reconciliation.
Read guide →Christian Conflict Resolution: A Biblical Guide
A practical, seven-step approach to hard conversations, listening, boundaries, accountability, and repair.
Read guide →How to Forgive Someone Who Hurt You
A Christian guide to forgiveness without denial, unsafe reconciliation, or rushed trust.
Read guide →How to Deal With Anger as a Christian
A biblical process for understanding anger, pausing before reaction, responding truthfully, and making repair.
Read practice →Christian Nonviolence: A Beginner’s Guide
What Christian nonviolence means, how it differs from passivity, and why it matters today.
Read guide →The Sermon on the Mount and Christian Peace
How Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5–7 reshapes power, retaliation, enemy-love, and the work of peace.
Read guide →Bible Verses About Peace, Forgiveness, and Anxiety
Scripture for peace of mind, forgiveness, anger, fear, reconciliation, and enemies.
Read guide →Bible Verses About Forgiveness
Scripture for receiving mercy, forgiving others, releasing revenge, and rebuilding relationships with wisdom.
Read practice →Bible Verses for Peace of Mind
A focused collection of Scripture for anxious, angry, fearful, and restless moments, with short practices.
Read practice →Prayers for Peace
Short Christian prayers for anger, anxiety, forgiveness, enemies, focus, and reconciliation.
Read practice →Prayer for Anxiety and Worry
Short and longer Christian prayers, Scripture, and a five-minute practice for an anxious or worried moment.
Read practice →Prayer Before Scrolling
Why attention matters spiritually and how a short prayer can interrupt digital distraction.
Read practice →How to Pray Before Reacting Online
A practical Christian pause for moving from digital impulse to a truthful, peaceful response.
Read practice →What Is Conscientious Objection?
The Christian history and moral reasoning behind refusing military service for reasons of conscience.
Read guide →The Catholic Peace Tradition
From Augustine and just war to Dorothy Day and Pacem in Terris: Catholic teaching on war and peace.
Read tradition →Civilian Public Service Camps: Map & Directory
Explore World War II conscientious objector camps, search archival records, and trace the work of Catholic and historic peace-church agencies.
Read guide →The Mennonite and Anabaptist Peace Tradition
How radical discipleship, enemy-love, community, and nonresistance shaped the historic peace churches.
Read tradition →The Quaker Peace Testimony
The inward spiritual conviction and outward practices behind centuries of Quaker peace witness.
Read tradition →Dorothy Day
The life, beliefs, peace witness, and legacy of the Catholic Worker co-founder.
Read profile →Dorothy Day on War, Poverty, and Mercy
Why Dorothy Day treated pacifism, voluntary poverty, hospitality, and the works of mercy as one Gospel commitment.
Read profile →Thomas Merton
The Trappist monk who connected contemplation, spiritual freedom, social criticism, and peace.
Read profile →Thomas Merton and the Inner Life of Peace
How contemplation exposes fear, ego, and compulsion—and becomes a foundation for outward peacemaking.
Read profile →What Does “Blessed Are the Peacemakers” Mean?
What Jesus meant in Matthew 5:9 and why peacemaking is an active mark of God’s children.
Read answer →What Does “Turn the Other Cheek” Actually Mean?
Why Jesus’ command is not passive surrender and what it asks of Christians in practice.
Read answer →What Is the Difference Between Peace and Passivity?
Why Christian peacemaking is active, courageous, and willing to enter conflict without dehumanizing people.
Read answer →Is Christian Nonviolence the Same as Pacifism?
The overlap and distinctions between Christian discipleship, nonviolence, and political pacifism.
Read answer →Can Christians Serve in the Military?
How major Christian traditions approach military service, conscience, and the use of force.
Read answer →Why Did Jesus Say “Love Your Enemies”?
The radical Christian logic of willing the good of enemies without approving evil.
Read answer →Who Was Dorothy Day?
A direct introduction to the journalist, activist, Catholic convert, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker.
Read answer →Is Prayer Before Scrolling Worth It?
Why a brief prayer before opening the phone can reshape attention, intention, and spiritual habits.
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