What Is Bethany?

It is a Spiritual Community Responding to a World of Violence.

Human Beings do not know who they are without community. In the past local community was everything, but now faceless forces of media and money shape us. To be truly human is to take a decision in your personal life and in relationship with others. At Bethany we have chosen the story of Jesus in the Gospel with the Hebrew Scriptures behind him as the shaping value and meaning of our lives. In a world of rivalry, scapegoating and violence God, in Jesus, leads us to his kingdom of peace, nonviolence and new humanity.

A journey, a place, a community and a teaching. Bethany center, a movement of Christian transformation for individual seekers, for churches, for a world waiting to be born.

What’s New - Fall 2025

At this moment in time no-one can be unaware of the crisis we are in. We stand on the brink of World War III. To say less than this is hiding our heads in the sand. We are called at this point to be especially faithful to the Gospel of Nonviolence - to endure come what may in a witness for peace. This means prayer, continued study, redoubled relationships of forgiveness, compassion & love. It is the work of a local community and also a growing community online. These relationships are one-on-one, person to person, but they are the salt of the earth, the light of the world.

  • September 2025 was the official launch of the new Bethany TikTok, Facebook & Instagram Pages. These platforms, along with our existing other sites such as this website and our YouTube channel, will we hope help us to grow our message of the nonviolent witness of Jesus and the revelation of a nonviolent God. The world is groaning for a way out of entrenched human systems founded in rivalry and violence. We invite you to check out these links and to like, comment and share with others.

We invite you to join Us For:

Prayer for Peace online every Thursday evening from 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST

Bible Study on Zoom on Friday evenings 7-8:45 p.m. EST

Jesus yoga & Sunday Spirituality, at Bethany House & online 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. EST

Reach out to bethanycenter7@gmail.com for the Zoom links.

Our Bethany Center website is dedicated to sharing Jesus’ gospel of nonviolence. We believe that this is a revelation of God in the world. God is nonviolent, always has been, and always will be.

Find here an account of our activities as a community. Plus a response, as best as we are able, to the actual wars & violence in the world.

Bethany also has new online and in person classes starting up in Fall 2025 - open the September Newsletter tab for details and to sign up!

It is so easy for us to surrender to despair in the face of human violence and the political decisions made by those in power. We follow Jesus who proclaimed a message of nonviolence, but ultimately his path led him to surrender his life on the cross. He lived in turbulent times and at the end of his life was alone in the face of the political and religious powers of his time. He calls us to remain faithful. Just as he surrendered his life believing that his Father would not let him fall, so we are called to remain faithful in his path of nonviolent love.