Is your community suffering from violence? These Web resources could help:
- Mennonite Church USA offers resources like "Agreeing and Disagreeing in Love," "Mennonite Statement and Study on Violence" and Mennonite Mission Network’s Mission Dei: "Peace Church, Mission Church: Friends or Foes?" through OneSource.
- Third Way Cafe provides resources and discussion on capital punishment, television violence, neighborhood peace issues and other pieces of today’s culture from an Anabaptist viewpoint.
- The Decade to Overcome Violence is an effort of World Council of Churches that seeks to add to existing networks and form new networks aimed at eradicating violence and the social situations that lead to violence.
- Christian Peacemaker Teams offers information about regional groups that have formed in the North America to address specific issues of violence in their areas.
- The Peace and Justice Support Network offers online resources on the death penalty, and many other issues related to problems of societal, global and interpersonal violence.
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America released resource sheets of ways congregations can address various social issues, including domestic violence, youth violence and self-injury, alcohol abuse and sexual exploitation. The denomination also offers a family pledge to non-violence.
- Mennonite Central Committee offers resources for women suffering from abuse as well as other helpful information about dealing with forms of violence.
