Time:
3:00pm Central Europe & Western Africa (4:00pm Palestine & Central Africa Time, 2:00pm UK, 9:00am USA Eastern, 7:30pm India Time)
Meeting Theme:
In a fractured world, “faith” can become a refuge… or a weapon. Many of us have watched it happen: under stress, communities double down on certainty, police boundaries, and treat empathy as compromise. Meanwhile, those who build bridges—peacebuilders, listeners, question-askers—can feel like a threat to their own Christian communities.
But what if the issue isn’t that some Christians have “more faith” and others have “less”—but that we’ve been formed by different kinds of faith?
This month’s Christian Peacebuilding Network gathering invites us to explore how faith functions beneath the surface—often before we consciously choose it or become aware of it. We’ll look at why boundary-based faith can feel safe (and why it spreads so easily), how it can become brittle or weaponized, and what it looks like to cultivate a faith that stays anchored while making room for complexity, lament, doubt, truth-telling, and courageous love.
Together, we will ask a practical question: What kind of faith forms people who can tell the truth, resist domination, and keep loving across boundaries—without losing their center?
Discussion questions:
When does faith become an anxiety-management system—protecting identity more than forming love?
What changes when “Who’s in/out?” stops being the primary question, and “What direction are we moving?” becomes central?
What practices help communities hold conviction without brittleness—and curiosity without drifting?
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