A Dangerous Journey
With his characteristic combination of prose and poetry, Daniel Berrigan examines our oldest biblical story of liberation in Exodus: Let My People Go. What and who are our pharaohs? How can we be liberated from violence? We must become like Moses, who was favored and privileged but then forever changed when he witnessed abuse: “If a larger world is to be embraced,” Berrigan writes, “a former life must be rejected.” Cascade Books
Growing a Better World
For introducing children to peacemakers and peacemaking, check out Plant a Seed of Peace, by Rebecca Seiling and illustrated by Brooke Rothshank. The book contains stories of 43 peacemakers from different times and countries, such as Kasai Kapata, a pastor in Zaire who responded with love when his life was threatened, and Hedy Sawadsky, a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron who stood alongside women who were being persecuted. Herald Press
A Song in Your Heart
Oppressed for decades by Nazi Germany and then by the former Soviet Union, the people of Estonia resisted—and then began a revolution—by singing. In the film The Singing Revolution, producers Maureen Castle Tusty and Jim Tusty use historical footage and personal interviews with key players to illustrate Estonia’s long tradition of singing and how a timely song festival provided not just the lyrics but the passion to free themselves—peacefully. www.singingrevolution.com
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