God is Subversive : Talking Peace in a Time of Empire

To Lee Griffith, being a peacemaker means much more than sporting -PEACE- T-shirts or voting for left-wing political candidates. Peacemaking is for him a daily practice of community formation, lifestyle decisions, and prayer -- ordinary living that is faithful to the gospel and happily out of sync with most of the world most of the time -- and it is a vital part of following Jesus Christ. In these challenging talks, Griffith -- a veteran anti-war activist who has been arrested many times for his pro-peace demonstrations -- sets forth a solidly biblical argument for uncompromising nonviolence. Along the way, he describes encounters with dumpster divers and prostitutes, with bag ladies and judges, with people who hear voices and see ghosts -- and he shares how, through these encounters and more, he has come to know better the subversive God of the gospel.