Register for our 2025 Conference in Philadelphia, PA! And check out other events for our community promoting practices of restorative justice.

On Tuesday, August 19th, 2025, we will host a conversation about restorative justice practice in parenting. See our community for more information.

Dive into this amazing story showing God’s plan of liberation from bondage, to renew the original vision of humanity in a garden land. Along the way, we will see how God’s justice is restorative, not retributive — even in some of the most challenging material in the Bible. Wrestle with the calling of Moses, the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, the Ten Plagues on Egypt, the wilderness wandering, the fire on the mountain, the nature of the Sinai covenant, the restorative character of the Law of Moses, and the beauty of God’s refining presence.

Instructor: Mako Nagasawa. Register here.

Would people in Hell choose Heaven if given the chance? In the popular modern show The Good Place, people can and do. In C.S. Lewis’ classic portrayal of a bus ride from Hell to Heaven, all but one do not. Protestants tend to think of hell as a prison cell where people want to get out, where God keeps them in because of their deeds and deservingness.  But Lewis portrays hell as a state of being where God calls people towards Him, where the people say "no," because of their desires and determinations.  This was actually the way the early Christians understood Hell.

Instructor: Ian Macdonald and Mako Nagasawa. Register here.

Join Hayley Rose (M.A. NCC LPC) and Rachel Darnall (M.A. Theological Studies) as we explore the causes, effects and cure for gender hierarchy in eight video episodes covering areas including: moral responsibility; work and compensation; reproduction and parenthood; civic life; education; marriage; sexual agency.

Participants will learn the surprising truth about why patriarchy happens, how it’s developed and mutated throughout history, and how Christians can honor God’s original plan for gender equality and co-rule while living in “a man’s world.”

Instructors: Hayley Rose, Rachel Darnall

God’s justice is restorative, not retributive.

See our Christian Restorative Justice Study Guide to learn biblical foundations and engage various modern-day issues. And check out Mako’s talk at Eastern Nazarene College.

Jesus healed human nature. For All of Us.

See our Healing Atonement Study Guide to learn about how to understand Jesus and the biblical story. And watch this video clip, below, called Jesus Retells Our Stories.