Metropolitan of Diokleia

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In looking at these issues in the light of God's identity

Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community - Foreword by John Dear Smycken - jul Metropolitan of DiokleiaThis timely book offers a three fold path for Christians to embrace Jesus' ethic of peacemaking. First: to begin with a life of prayer, a movement from the dwelling place of fear into the house of God. Next, to resist the powers of death including our everyday selfishness. Finally, to celebrate life and to build communities in which love, forgiveness, and compassion bind us in solidarity with a wounded world. Henri Nouwen, a Dutch born priest, was