Books Pastor Jill recommended in her 2015 Sabbatical Report, “Reconciliation as a Way of Life”
- Transforming Church Conflict: Compassionate Leadership in Action, by Deborah Van Deusen Hunsinger and Theresa F. Latini
- NonViolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Rene Girard and Creative Reconciliation, edited by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba
- Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume 1: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, by Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
- Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume 2: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking, by Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
- Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Moral Courage: Motives and Designs for Ministry in a Troubled World, by Robert L. Browning and Roy A. Read.
- Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Pietism, by Allen Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung. This was also the subject of a past Season of Reconciliation book study.
- The Violence of Love, by Oscar Romero. This was also the subject of a past Season of Reconciliation book study.
- Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools, edited by Rachel M. MacNair and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. A recommendation endorsed by Jane Dickie
Previous Season of Reconciliation Book Studies
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of the Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Healing the Heart of Democracy, by Parker Palmer
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
- Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
- Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor
Books recommended by Tom Arendshorst
- The Moral Imagination, by John Paul Lederach. From a great figure in the literature, praxis, and teaching of conflict transformation, his crowning thesis—a wise and inspiring sequence of essays.
- The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan
Websites
- Restorative Circles: restorativecircles.org is the website of Dominic Barter, the founder of Restorative Circles
- Holland Restorative Circles: hrcircles.wordpress.com is the website of the local Restorative Circles efforts that Pastor Jill, Hope Church member, Ann McKnight, and community member, Lynn Stubbs lead.
- Corrymeela: corrymeela.org/about/who-we-are. Claire Rumpsa shares: “As most of you know, I am from Northern Ireland, and we have some hard-won experience in terms dealing with conflict, division and injustice. I have been so alarmed to see the increased division and polarization in American society since I emigrated here 12 years ago, and I believe that Northern Ireland has some lessons to share on everything from police reform to dealing with difference, to acknowledging and understanding the parts that so many of us play in perpetuating division. Corrymeela has been a beacon of welcome and a significant player in our peace process, doing the hard, on-the-ground work of reconciliation. Please ask me more about this if you are interested!
- Beyond Intractability: beyondintractability.org. University of Colorado resource collection focused on education about and construction responses to conflict.
Other Resources
- Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation, 2013, I: 52-60, “Some Challenges of Today’s World: No to an Economy of Exclusion, No to the New Idolatry of Money, No to a Financial System that Rules rather than Serves, No to the Inequality that Spawns Violence,” 2013.
- Laudato Si, Pope Francis, Encyclical Letter, Chapter One, “What Is Happening To Our Common Home,” pp 5-15, 2015.