Education for Shalom

Shalom goes beyond justice, however. Shalom incorporates right relationships in general...right relationships to God, to one's fellow human beings, to nature, and to self. the shalom community is not merely the just community but is the responsible community, in which God's laws for our multifaceted existence are obeyed.

The vision of shalom comes to us, for one thing, as a two-part command: we are to pray and struggle for the release of the captives, and we are to pray and struggle for the release of the enriching potentials of God's creation. we live under both a liberation mandate and a cultural mandate.

The goal for which Christian educators are to teach is that our students be agents and celebrators of shalom, petitioners and mourners.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Educating for Shalom (MI: Eerdmans, 2004) 24-25.