Conflict as Mission I am hearing a lot of commentary in the face of the restrictions that have come with COVID-19 pandemic about how the church, how can we, be the salt and light of the earth through ...

The grieving peacemaker Bushfires are nothing new in Australia.  But the scale of what we have seen this summer season takes our breath away.  So many have lost their lives, millions of ...

Winning the Battle Kyle Giersdorf, aka “Bugha,” is 16 years old and wants to buy a new desk. He has enough money. He has $US3 million. How? He recently won the inaugural Fortnite World Cup, ...

But peacemaking just won't work in this situation! Unfortunately, many believers and their churches have not yet developed the commitment and ability to respond to conflict in a gospel-centered ...

The overwhelmed peacemaker Not exactly a peaceful Easter... On Good Friday 2017, the beginning of Easter, my newborn twins came home after 10 weeks in hospital.  With their sister I was a confident, ...

The forgiveness that frees How do we approach the situation of someone hurting us? How do we balance the need to gently but clearly raise our concern with a person who has wronged us (eg. see ...

The heart of the human problem When Serena Williams bowed out of the Australian Open last month, it took fans and rivals by surprise. Up 5-1 in the deciding set, and on Match Point, motoring toward ...

It’s Christmas time: anyone need help?! Lean in for peace! What a year it has been! When the Apostle Paul said of our human race in Romans 3:17 that “the way of peace they do not know” he ...

  Peacemaking takes practice… I was teaching some peacemaking principles to some primary-school age kids recently, and we went through an imaginary scenario where two kids were fighting about ...

Dear Lord, As we've read the 45 prayer requests which have already come in for this moth of prayer, our hearts are breaking as we see the depth of human suffering and relational breakdown that so ...

  Begin the sentence ‘institutional responses’ and most people will be able to finish it with ‘child sexual abuse’. We all know that the Church has not come through this unscathed. The ...

Fights, faults and forgiveness Finding fault - everybody's doing it What a time it’s been in Canberra recently! It’s tough being the leader of a political party – any party. Everyone has their ...