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EXPLORING MIMETIC THEORY BIBLICAL THEOLOGY BELOVED COMMUNITY 2024 CONFERENCE REPORT Communicating Gods Nonviolent Love Teaching Tools The 2024 Theology and Peace Conference and Annual Meeting was held at the Casa Iskali Retreat Center located just outside Chicago Illinois from June 10 to 13 2024. The conference theme Communicating Gods NonViolent Love brought attendees from across the United States as well as virtual participants from as far away as New Zealand and Australia. The Conference participants were passionate about sharing the story of Gods unconditional love. James Warren the author of Compassion or Apocalypse A Comprehensible Guide to the Thought of Rene Girard 2013 opened the conference with his concise and insightful review of the origins of mimetic theory.