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Why give?

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    Theology & Peace is entirely member-funded. Your donations make our annual conferences and other in-person gatherings possible.

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    You’re funding a community where people can unlearn rivalry and encounter mimetic theory alongside world class theologians, scholars, and social activists.

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    You’re supporting the development of a theology that helps people navigate the reality of human violence with greater confidence, creativity, and hope.

Attorney Preston Shipp speaks passionately into a microphone in defense of a pensive-looking Cyntoia Brown.
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Rev. Thee Smith giving a presentation with a microphone, pointing at a slide on a large digital screen.
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An elderly man with glasses and a gray beard speaking into a microphone at a podium, holding papers, with a colorful mural in the background.
Patty Prasada-Rao and Elder C.W. Harris lead a room full of participants in song and praise, with a large colorful mural behind them, a presentation screen, and whiteboards.
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A man with glasses and long dreadlocks speaks into a microphone at a conference table, while a man with white hair and glasses sits beside him, looking at him, with a laptop open on the table in front of them.
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Shannon Mullen and other conference participants listen to a presentation at Thistle Farms, sitting at a table, listening attentively, with large flowers posters on the wall behind them.
Patty Prasada-Rao and Elder C.W. Harris lead the conference participants in song, with a colorful abstract mural in the background and a screen displaying a slideshow.
Susan Wright and Preston Shipp stand before a presentation screen in front of an audience.
Preston Shipp and Susan Wright sit beside one another looking at a document, with a colorful abstract mural in the background.
Paul Nuechterlein gives a conference presentation on advanced mimetic theory. He is gesturing with his right arm, pointing towards a colorful mural on the wall. A screen behind him displays a presentation slide titled "Evolution of Culture."
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A man with glasses and a beard, wearing a checkered shirt, gesturing with his hands while speaking inside a room near a window with green trees outside.
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A smiling man speaking into a microphone during a presentation, wearing a black T-shirt with images of historical Black figures.
A woman with glasses and a black t-shirt that says "Black Lives Matter" is speaking passionately into a microphone.

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This is what it's about — building a community of faith and conversation on crucially important human issues like imitation and violence — because these are the tools for a dramatically renewed theology.

—Author Anthony Bartlett

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The folks who turned out for the conference are a great bunch — intellectually lively, creative and affable. I would hate to have missed it, and plan to come back next year for more!

—Tom Nicoll
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It's spiritually invigorating to be part of an organization that seeks to change the theological landscape of American Christianity.

—Pastor Adam Ericksen