Resurrection Peacemaking: Plowsharing the Tools of War: Thirty Years with Christian Peacemaker Teams

by Clifford Kindy

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725278981
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	10/29/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher