Resurrection Peacemaking: Plowsharing the Tools of War: Thirty Years with Christian Peacemaker Teams
Ebook
Overview
The author draws the reader through the drama and mediocrity of his personal experience. The hard work of peacemaking is clearly strengthened through team efforts. Space is provided for the reader to step into the shallows of peacemaking and then on into the depths. This book is intended to be acted into being!
“When we met Cliff Kindy and family at their Joyfield Farm
during a Christian Peacemaker Team Congress in 1998, they already
embodied an exemplary personal and political discipleship of
nonviolence. This now revered elder peacemaker chronicles how CPT
experiments around the world are opening paths that can liberate us
from our captivity to militarism. Both harrowing and inspiring,
Kindy’s stories and analysis invite us into, and instruct us in,
that crucial work.”
—Ched Myers and Elaine Enns, co-authors of Healing Haunted
Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization
“Kindy is a Midwestern farmer who eschews swords and is familiar
with plowshares. In that Isaian tradition, he offers gripping
stories of courage, sacrifice, and faithful Christian witness in
situations of intractable and deadly violence. Nonviolence is most
effective, writes Kindy, when it intentionally retakes the
initiative from the actors of violence. From Gaza to Iraq, Nigeria
to Colombia, and back to the United States, Kindy reveals a hidden
truth behind the Christian Peacemaker Team, a civilian ‘nonviolent
special ops,’ who for more than thirty years have been infiltrating
war zones to de-escalate violence, accompany peacemakers, and serve
the victims of war—all for the sake of Jesus. These are the stories
of our unsung peace heroes. Remember them. Honor them. Emulate
them.”
—Rose Marie Berger, co-editor of Advancing Nonviolence and Just
Peace in the Church and World and senior editor at
Sojourners magazine
- Title: Resurrection Peacemaking: Plowsharing the Tools of War
- Author: Clifford Kindy
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725278981, 9781725278967, 9781725278974, 1725278987, 1725278960, 1725278979
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725278981
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:26:00Z
Clifford Kindy has worked for thirty years with Christian
Peacemaker Teams, on the Steering Committee, and in the conflict
zones of the world. He and partner Arlene also operate an organic
market garden in Wabash County, Indiana, which provides their
income.