by G. Scott Brown | Sep 8, 2024 | Active Peace, Active Peace Blog, Life Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Restorative Practices
If you’re like me, you’re living another beautiful day or evening as you read this. Your life is full and you feel safe. Because you’re aware of the turmoil and suffering in the world, you do your best to stay awake to your privilege and how fortunate you are. And in...
by G. Scott Brown | Apr 2, 2024 | Active Peace Blog, immigrant restorative justice, Nonviolence, Restorative Justice
The grave danger is to disown our neighbors. When we do so, we deny their humanity and our own without realizing it. — Pope Francis Immigration seems like a big fat litmus test. At the root of that test is the way immigration brings us face to face with “the other”...
by G. Scott Brown | Jan 2, 2024 | Active Peace Blog
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” ― Theodore Parker It seems a long arc indeed, this movement toward peace and justice. I imagine it very much like a river flowing toward the sea, with varying strength but persistent, inexorable....
by G. Scott Brown | Nov 14, 2023 | Active Peace Blog, Activism, Peacemaking
I said to my heart, show me the way now. Help me to know what is mine to do amidst the great catastrophe — the death, suffering and ignorance that’s so much bigger than the latest war. Give me clarity and courage. Help me to see love and beauty amidst the destruction...
by G. Scott Brown | Oct 4, 2023 | Active Peace, Active Peace Blog, Activism, Restorative Justice
Denali was a spiritual teacher and friend (now crossed over) whose teaching was all about truth, love, and innocence. This was his Holy Trinity and Innocence was the union of masculine and feminine and the very essence of being. As soon as I first heard that emphasis...
by G. Scott Brown | Apr 21, 2023 | Active Peace, Active Peace Blog, immigrant restorative justice, Restorative Justice
Part of the inspiration for this post is a recent CNN special report about the migration of people from South America through the treacherous Darién Gap at the Columbia/Panama border. It seems that nearly all of them are making their way to the U.S. border. It’s a...
