Resources

Under Vine and Fig Tree: Biblical Theologies of Land and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

$22, edited by Alain Epp-Weaver; 2007  

What gives a measure of uniqueness to the struggles in the Middle East is that the control of land has been repeatedly contested throught the centuries. It is also unique that Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptures address land issues so intensely and consider  parts of the region to be endowed with special holiness. This volume offers a careful and well-grounded study of the Scriptures, Old Testament and New, as they relate to the vexing questions of land ownership which lie at the root of the ongoing Israeli -Palestinian conflict.

'At Each Small Turn...Choose Peace'

'At Each Small Turn...Choose Peace', a peace curriculum, is available for schools, churches and youth groups. (Developed for grades 6 – 9) The curriculum explores the different dynamics of peaceful resolution to conflict beginning with the history of Anabaptism and Mennonites, to how peace and conflict are reflected by the media and in the arts, as well as looking at issues of violence and injustice such as: war, refugees, poverty, racism, hunger, the environment, etc., and how God calls us to respond.

Simply in Season

Not so long ago most fresh food on North American tables came from home gardens and local farmers markets. Today, the average item of food travels more than a thousand miles before it lands on our tables. It’s a remarkable technological accomplishment, but has not proven to be healthy for our communities, our land or us.

Through stories and simple “whole foods” recipes, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert explore how the food we put on our tables impacts our local and global neighbors. They show the importance of eating local, seasonal food—and fairly traded food—and invite readers to make choices that offer security and health for our communities, for the land, for body and spirit.

 

Earth Trek: Celebrating and sustaining God's creation

Joanne Moyer. Herald Press, 2004. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth and saw that is was good. But what has happened since we, created in God's image, have taken dominion over all the earth? Is God's creation still good? Although we may maim, destroy and pollute, we cannot remove the goodness of what God has made. Nor can we escape our calling to live peaceably on God's good earth. This book provides resources for meditation, reflection, study and action.

Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist perspective on a Sustainable World

Edited by Calvin Redekop. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2000. Recent years have seen a shift in the belief that a religious world view, specifically a Christian one, precludes a committment to environmentalism. In Creation and the Environment, the first book on this subject supported and produced by the Mennonite church, Redekop and his coauthors explain the unique environmental position of the Anabaptists.

Readings from the Perspective of the Earth (The Earth Bible Series)

Norman C. Habel, Pilgrim Press, 2001. This book, the first of a series from the Earth Bible Project, introduces how reading the biblical text with an interpretational approach using ecojustice principals yields new insights.

For more information on Peace Education, please contact Jon Nofziger at MCC BC at: (604) 850-6639 in Abbotsford, 1-888-622-6337 from outside the Lower Mainland. E-mail: peace@mccbc.com