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Tell us your stories of confronting racism

How have you, or your community, or anyone you’ve seen responded to racism and worked to embrace your anti-racist identity as God ordained ministers of reconciliation?...

June 26, 2020
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Racial reconciliation

“You Got Booked” and Conversations with People Who Really Got Booked

On Saturday, February 15, 2020, a couple dozen people gathered at Mechanicsburg Brethren in Christ Church to learn about the injustice of the criminal justice system...

February 23, 2020
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Mass incarceration

Handling Our Fears

by Jan Engle Lewis *Reprinted from the Spring 2016 edition of Shalom! A MISSIONARY COUPLE I came to know while living in Ecuador recently posted a Facebook link...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom

Speaking the Truth in Love

by Ben White *Reprinted from the Summer 2015 edition of Shalom! I’M A PASTOR in South Jersey so, naturally, I go to Taco Bell a lot. It’s an “all...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom

Choosing to Love Our Enemies

by Kurt Willems *reprinted from the Summer 2015 edition of Shalom! THERE ONCE WAS a boy who lived in the tension between joy and pain; happiness and hurt; light...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom

Everyone Needs a Place at the Table

by Zach Spidel *Reprinted from the Fall 2015 edition of Shalom! AS BROTHER JOSE gave us instructions for serving the meal, he emphasized several things: how important it...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom

Personal Reflections on the Justice System

by Ken Abell *reprinted from the Winter 2016 edition of Shalom! I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me,...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom

One Church’s Conversations About Race

*Reprinted from the Spring 2015 edition of Shalom! Hank Johnson is pastor of discipleship and youth ministries at the Harrisburg Brethren in Christ Church, where he...

June 22, 2016
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Shalom