Plowshares - A Peace Studies Collaborative of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester Colleges

Students light candles at a campus peace vigil.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace Activities at Goshen

September 8, 2005  10:00 AM

Seeking Peace Conference

Sept. 8-11, 2005 — Indianapolis, Indiana

A gathering hosted by the historic peace churches, held in partnership with the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Every Church a Peace Church, Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes, Mennonite Church USA Peace Advocate and Peace and Justice Support Network, On Earth Peace Assembly and Quaker House-Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg NC.

As a multi-faceted and intergenerational gathering, the conference will provide opportunities to build mentoring relationships and explore practical and intellectual approaches to peace and peacemaking for members and friends of the Church of the Brethren, Mennonite Church USA , The Society of Friends, and all who embrace peacemaking as an integral Christian discipline.

For more information please see the conference website: http://www.plowsharesproject.org/php/HistoricPeaceChurchConference.php.


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