This year the Fellowship is taking time to reflect back and to look forward. We’re exploring where our story has taken us and considering where we could go next. This time of reflection intends to both challenging and inspiring. It’ll give the Fellowship a chance to celebrate successes, reflect on things that didn’t work out […]
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a group of Christian Peacemakers which traces its witness for peace and justice back more than 100 years, is concerned about recent news regarding the renewal of the UK’s nuclear warheads. Chair Richard Bickle said: “This policy shows real contempt for the promises made by the UK government when it signed
We asked Rev Dr Inderjit Bhogal, FoR Member and President of the Methodist Peace Fellowship, to share a prayer for use in this time of change: Feel free to use and share his words:_____________________________________________________ PRAYER FOR OUR TIMES Holy GodCreator of the universes, the heavens and the earth.You make all people in your image;You know
We invited Reverend Dr Barbara Glasson, President of the Methodist Conference, to reflect on what the Covenant of Peace could mean today: On a hilltop overlooking Bethlehem, David who farms these olive groves looks out over the settlements that move towards his land ‘I refuse to have enemies, I refuse to hate, hope is resistance.’
Richard Bickle, Chair of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, said there was a need for accountability and an investment in peace if elements of today’s Queens Speech are to be met. He said: “The Fellowship shares wider concerns of the Peace and Human Rights movements that Government plans to tackle so-called “vexacious claims” against British Personnel
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FoR welcomes the appointment of well known peacemaker Bishop Stephen Cottrell as the next Archbishop of York.
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The 11th November provides the nation(s) a chance to pause and reflect upon the very human cost of warfare. But what images are conjured up in that moment of remembrance? Black and white images of ‘going over the top’? Men and women of the military with horrific wounds (either physical or mental) from a more
The Fellowship was thrilled to hear that Rev Inderjit Bhogal has been award the 2018 World Methodist Peace Award. His extensive lifetime commitment to living out a witness to peace has been a challenge and inspiration to us all. Speaking in response to the news Inderjit said “I am surprised but also deeply honoured to
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The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a Christian Peacemaking Charity, today issued a statement recognising the energy and promise on show when the Global Climate Strike happens today, 20 September 2019. The statement, from Richard Bickle (Chair of Trustees) highlights the power of non-violence to highlight injustice and focus global attention on tackling the violence of climate
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The Fellowship of Reconciliation is taking to the road this autumn with author and campaigner Tim Gee. Discover why, if we want to address inequality, tackle the climate emergency, and prevent violent conflict, we need to start taking Jesus’s call to peacemaking seriously. Tim’s new book ‘Why I am a Pacifist‘ (John Hunt Publishing, September
