{"id":699,"date":"2019-05-06T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"peacemaking-doesnt-mean-passivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/peacemaking-doesnt-mean-passivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaking Doesn&#8217;t Mean Passivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white; color: #181818; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u201cPeace is not just about the absence of conflict; it\u2019s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between &#8216;the devil\u2019s peace&#8217; and God\u2019s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn\u2019t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #181818; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Shane Claiborne, <\/span><em><span style=\"background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals<\/span><\/em> (Zondervan, 2010)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeace is not just about the absence of conflict; it\u2019s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between &#8216;the devil\u2019s peace&#8217; and God\u2019s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peacemaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}