Our annual conference for YPN members, Called to be Peacemakers, was a great success.  It was run jointly with the Student Christian Movement this year and some 50 people attended. Welcome to our new members! The theme was Peace, Power and Protest: Prophets for a new world and our contributors included Christian CND,  QPSW and Operation Noah, […]

Amanda Kuehn is from Lincoln, Nebraska and studies creative writing at St Mary’s University in California. Read her reflections on daring to be a peacemaker; how it’s not that daunting really, and that we’d be surprised how things add up.   “Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.” Psalm 34:14

The seventh instalment of your YPN conference blog series is brought to you by Sarah Hine from the Darvell Community in Sussex. Here she describes every day protest for God and challenges us to live out the peace of Jesus. Living Out Peace It is easy to talk about peace when you live in a

Matt Jeziorski is the education coordinator for Pax Christi, a Catholic peace organisation actively educating and campaigning for a more just and peaceful world. Here are his reflections on the message Pope Francis gave on New Year’s Day and how we might accept the challenge of peace. Reflection on Pope Francis’s message for World Peace

Andii Bowsher is the co-convenor of the Newcastle’s joint universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee and Anglican chaplain to Northumbria University. He explains why peace is more inherent to life than violence, particularly for Christians. We interrupt this war … Christmas Eve 2014 sees the centenary of the unofficial Christmas truces. They commonly began with

Fourth post in our conference blog series: Amelia Sutcliffe, divinity student at Edinburgh university, worked at a photography exhibition last summer; she shares her reflections on how some unexpected photographs can be powerful witnesses for peace. #InSightOfPeace This August I worked as an intern for the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), in Edinburgh,

The Royal Mint has brought out a new £2 coin to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WW1. View it here. Our campaign featured in the Guardian diary column (4th paragraph) and the Oxford Mail. Here’s the press release we sent out. “Christian charity criticises new £2 coin for glorifying war.” The Fellowship of

This prayer is in fact a Franciscan blessing. Not to be said lightly! May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and live deep within your heart. May God bless you with holy anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,

Susan Clarkson, from the Catholic Worker Farm‘s Oxford community, reflects on the theme of our conference and on the importance of language. Three things struck me when I saw the title of the conference; that true peace comes from within, that protest often emphasises the negative, and that we can describe ourselves as ‘pilgrims’ and