Jesus-Shalom is the communication sphere of Anvil Trust using the mediums of podcast, blog and live video conversations and discussions. It explores provocative biblical and contemporary issues from shalom perspectives, plus regular interviews with ‘Shalom Activists’ working in diverse roles.
Visit Jesus-ShalomAnvil Trust is the centrepoint and legal foundation of a movement whose purpose is to articulate, advocate and advance an understanding and activism based on a Jesus-centred all-inclusive vision of shalom, through Workshop learning, Peacemeal community and Jesus-Shalom podcasts.
Visit Anvil TrustWorkshop is the learning sphere of Anvil Trust. Creating safe yet brave spaces to explore a spirituality that inspires understanding, formation and activism from a Jesus-centred shalom. Value-focused, inclusive and empowering, it offers resources, courses and live video conversations.
Visit WorkshopPeacemeal is the community-building sphere of Anvil Trust. Inspired by the ‘table-fellowship’ of Jesus every meal can become a portal for nurturing relationship, developing community, spiritual encounter and radical social change. We are a catalyst to reveal and inspire radical table possibilities.
Visit PeacemealMy conversation with Alexandra (Alex) Ellish begins with her early childhood in South Africa, including enjoyable experience in Presbyterian church, with a relaxed faith home environment. When she moved to the UK at 15 she found no Presbyterian church in Kent, so made her way into the Baptist church, encountered Anabaptism. [0-5:58] We also talk […]
Tim Peebles is an Anabaptist theologian, Mennonite pastor, and martial artist, recently moved from Chicago to England. He currently serves as the coordinator of Anvil Trust, a UK charity devoted to articulating, advocating, and advancing Jesus-Shalom.
Noel Moules is a thinker, teacher, author and activist for peace, justice and deep ecology. He is the founder and visionary of Anvil Trust with its Workshop, Peacemeal and Jesus-Shalom podcast programmes.
I ended the last post with some questions. What if we were to think of Christianity as a kind of blueprint for home building? What
In my previous post I noted that current trends away from religious affiliation, together with cultural shifts in identity and community, leave us needing to
Last week I caught up with an article in The Guardian, from a few weeks back, regarding declining church attendance in the Church of England.
Each podcast episode and posting explores what Jesus-centered and world-embracing peace might look like in thought and life, conviction and practice, through personal, interpersonal, communal, political and ecological domains of life.
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