Hope for Peace in a Broken World: Religions Journal

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1 Chronicles, culture, exile, hope, journal, peace, religions, Walls

This is my new article “Hope for Peace in a Broken World: 1 Chronicles, Exile and Building Walls” for Religions 9 (2016): 136-146. 

The 9th issue will be about “Peace in a World of Conflicts”. The stated goal of the great world religions is to establish peace both within the world and between God and human beings. It is not a small paradox that today religion is frequently portrayed as a great disturber of peace both insides the communities and in international affairs at large. The forthcoming issue of Religions/Adyan will reflect upon the ways world religions conceive peace and can contribute to restore it in our trouble times.

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This Gives All of Us Hope: Thirty Seconds or Less

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community, Ezra, hope, Thirty Seconds or Less, Walls

Walls that Divide: Sojourners

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Borderlinks, DMZ, grace ji-sun kim, Kenneth Bae, Sojourners, Walls

“Walls that Divide” is my latest post for Sojourners. It is reposted here with permission. For more blogs check out Sojourners’ website.

Walls exist between U.S. and Mexico. A few years ago, I took a class to the Mexico-U.S. border through BorderLinks, an organization that provides educational experiences to connect divided communities, raise awareness about border and