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RELIGION, PEACE AND JUSTICE

Cultivating Resurrection in a Crucified World.

The Jim Forest Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice has a combined focus on the inner transformation of a peacemaker, theology of peace and justice, the role of religion in peace and violence, and practical peacebuilding.

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Who we are

The JIM FOREST INSTITUTE FOR RELIGION, PEACE & JUSTICE (JFI) is a teaching, research, and resource institute of St. Stephen’s University that provides students, scholars, practitioners, and any thoughtful person with a robust education and experience that integrate attentiveness to one's inner transformation, theology of peace and justice, an understanding of the role of religion in peace and violence, and practical peacemaking as a vocation and way of life.

 

JFI offers a range of programs for both graduate and undergraduate students through a variety of innovative delivery modes that are meant to create the perfect balance between convenience and low disruption to the lives of our students and high personal contact and face-to-face interaction. 

"When people tell me they're sick of organized religion, I gently suggest that maybe the problem isn't that religion is organized, but that it's organized for the wrong purposes. Then I'll often ask, 'What worthy purposes do you wish religious communities would organize around?' The Jim Forest Institute offers an essential answer to that question: working for peace and justice for everyone, beginning with the most vulnerable. I'm thankful that this community of scholars and learners are devoting themselves to a fresh vision of what religion is actually for."

   

BRIAN McLAREN

AUTHOR, SPEAKER, ACTIVIST

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A life-changing yet manageable academic experience.

FALL SEMESTER

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  • PJST 5482 – Inner transformation of a peacemaker

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  • PJST 5380 – Theology of Peace & Justice

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  • PJST 5180 – Peace & Violence in the New Testament

SPRING SEMESTER

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  • PJST 5583 – Practical Nonviolence and Peacebuilding

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  • PJST 5882 – Religion, Peace and Conflict

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  • PJST 5182 – Peace & Violence in the Old Testament

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The flagship program of the Jim Forest Institute is our online six-course Certificate in Religion, Peace & Justice. Students can complete this program in as little as eight months and have the option of applying the courses of this Certificate towards an M.A. or M.Min in Theology & Culture as the online Peace Studies Track at St. Stephen's University.

JFI's Certificate program includes both graduate and undergraduate options and focuses on theology of peace and justice, the inner transformation of a peacemaker, the role of religion in peace and violence, and practical peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

 

This program is for any thoughtful person who wants to enhance their theology of peace and justice, expand their practical peacebuilding skills, and pay more attention to their inner transformation as peacemakers. Its courses include a robust and well-organized online interface, video conferences with our amazing Guest Lecturers, creative and thought-provoking assignments, readings that will challenge you and expand your knowledge, lectures from our Core Faculty that are synchronized with Keynote presentations to simulate the classroom experience as much as possible, and a variety of informative and subversive high-quality video clips — most of them from our partner and friends at The Work of the People.

 

Our Certificate encourages a mature subversiveness, valuing mystery and truth, beauty and practicality, paradox and integrative thinking, vulnerability and courage, hospitality and an identity forged in the crucible of a peaceable kingdom whose King sits on a cruciform throne. If this appeals to you, we encourage you to get ahold of us today.

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RAW INFO

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​Duration — 8 months

 

Credit hours — 18

 

Number of courses — 6

 

Delivery mode — online

 

Tuition — $395 CAD per c/h

STUDENT TESTIMONIALS

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EVY KLASSEN

Abbotsford, BC, Canada

“I love the course content, the push to dig deeper in the reading material, and the challenge to write academically. I just wish I could clear my schedule so I could study all day!”

GUEST LECTURERS

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​The online Certificate in Religion, Peace and Justice includes the participation of a number of amazing Guest Lecturers from various backgrounds and areas of expertise who offer original recorded lectures and video conferences with our students.

 

Brian Zahnd, Lisa Schirch, Pete Enns, Jarrod McKenna, Phileena Heuertz, Brian McLaren, Cece Jones-Davis, Jonathan Martin, David Moore, Shane Claiborne, Terry LeBlanc, and many more.

STUDY ABROAD – TRAVEL WHILE YOU LEARN

All St. Stephen's University and JFI master's programs include study abroad opportunities Ireland, north and south of the border.

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The prophet Isaiah envisioned a day when the pursuit of peace would replace preparation for war. For two millennia Christians have claimed that in his death and resurrection Christ has inaugurated that day. The Jim Forest Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice takes seriously the call of Christ to wage peace and justice in a world long addicted to war and violence.

BRIAN ZAHND

AUTHOR, PASTOR

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