This is a video-based curriculum that depicts the stark facets about oppression and injustice around the world and presents a Bible-based approach to dealing with them. In the video segments, students will follow the visit of four American teens to squalid corners of India.
Introduction: God is Big on Justice
1. Oppression
2. What God Hates
3. Joining the Fight Against Injustice
4. God's Vision Brings God's Provision
5. Do It Now

This video provides a dramatic inside look at one of the most innovative and ambitious attempts at dialogue and healing in human history - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It reveals the deeply moving encounters of victims and victimizers and of a nation with a racist past. It explores the working of restorative justice through four emotionally wrenching case studies. Because this video is long, it should be used in segments. Each story will generate discussion on a variety of topics: dispute resolution, community mediation, peace and conflict studies, theories of justice and crime, prisoner rehabilitation, victim's rights, reparations, psychological trauma and racial sensitivity. Winner of Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.

This video reveals the burning truth in once-secret corporate documents: the story of a $62 billion global corporation and powerful new footage from Eastern Europe and Asia, like girls handing out free Marlboros to boys in Vietnam. The film also illustrates how Philip Morris hides behind the family-friendly image of Kraft Foods, using it to make contributions to political campaigns, lobby against regulations and influence media coverage.
Produced and directed by Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold.

This is one of "Beyond the News" series. What happens after the newspaper headlines? To the family of the victim? To the murderer? Does killing the killer create justice? Is the death penalty ever right? Does it deter crime? You'll be inspired and challenged as families move from fury to forgivenss. The stories of Helen Prejean, Howard Zehr and others, combined with your group's discussion, will teach the healing power of forgiveness.

Peace with Justice is a faithful expression of shalom in the Bible. It calls the church to "strengthen its capacity to advocate publicly in communities and nations" throughout the world. The Peace with Justice program aims to make shalom visible and active in people's lives and communities by setting people free from bondage. We will celebrate peace with justice when all people have access to adequate jobs, housing, education, food, health care, income support and clean water. We will further celebrate when structures and systems that reflect economic exploitation, war, political oppression and cultural domination no longer exist.
The Old Testament speaks of God's sovereignty in terms of covenant, more particularly the "covenant of peace" with Israel, which binds that people of God's shalom (Isaiah 54:10; Ezekiel 37:20). In the covenant of shalom, there is no contradiction between justice and peace or between peace and security or between love and justice (Jeremiah 29:7). In Isaiah's prophecy, when "the spirit is poured upon us from on high," we will know that these laws of God are one and indivisible: "Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places" (Isaiah 32:16-18, NRSV).
The MARC office houses the Peace with Justice Library (formerly located at GR Trinity UMC), a collection of 63 books and videos. For a complete listing of these resources, contact Betsy Weems in MARC at marc@wmcumc.org.
For additional information on Peace with Justice Ministries, visit the web page on the West Michigan Conference website at www.westmichiganconference.org, or contact Ellen Brubaker, West Michigan Conference Peace with Justice Coordinator.

Hosted by John Whitehead, founder of Rutherford Institute, this video deals with the separation of religion from American public life. He focuses to defend religious liberty against what he sees as government encroachment and calls on Christians of all faiths and stripes to "get involved" and recognize the forces which are present in our society which are undermining our freedoms and families. This resource covers every aspect of our society, from government to entertainment to books to behavior to education to activism. There are four sessions. 1. Concerns and Principles. 2. Crisis Points. 3. A True Christianity. 4. Activism. This is a very good discussion starter.

Church renewal or church schism? Since its beginning in 1982, the Institute on Religion and Democracy has continuously undermined the United Methodist Church and other mainline Protestant denominations by attacking the character of church leaders. This organization, funded by some of the world's most powerful foundations, undermines the witness of the church by fueling controversy to its own benefit. This film exposes the true intent of their efforts to "renew" the church.

Featuring Randall Balmer, Bishop Kenneth Carter, Frederick Clarkson, Jim Naughton, Bishop Beverly Shamana, Andrew Weaver, and Jim Winkler

Three themes are:
1.James
2. Mexico
3. Restorative Justice