Welcome to the home page of the Peace and Justice Task Force of the Religious Education Association. We hope to build up these webpages as a place to gather and share links to materials that religious educators working with peace and justice issues might find useful.

Introduction to our website

This site is divided -- at least at the moment! -- into three sections. The first one is a gathering place for various contextual issues. Here we are putting links to history, to various statements that specific religious communities have promulgated on peace and justice issues, to a glossary of terms, and to academic papers that we believe are pertinent.

The second section is comprised of practical resources and links to religious organizations that are specifically focused on peace and justice issues.

The third section is more general, and is comprised of anything else people think might be useful that didn't fit in the first two sections (this includes peace and justice issues more generally, not necessarily seen through religious lenses).

If you want to participate in building this page, please contact our web coordinator, Mary Hess, for details on how to access the editing capabilities of this wiki (mhess at luthersem dot edu). Please note that we also have a group on Facebook entitled "REA Peace and Justice Task Force" and we invite you to join that for communication updates.

Dallas meeting

During our most recent annual meeting -- November of 2009 -- we hosted a discussion with Len Ellis, the president of the Dallas Peace Center on the topic of "Commonalities of Faith in Working for Peace and Justice: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Interfaith Collaboration."

If you have any suggestions for our Denver meeting, please get in touch with Dr. Horell.