The River That Refused to Be Still
When Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives," He was not offering...
This is tradition perspectives on peace, drawing on John 14:27.
When Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives," He was not offering the kind of peace that asks us to be quiet while others suffer. Rachel Held Evans once wrote about how the most Christ-like communities she encountered were the ones brave enough to sit with discomfort.…
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