God Is Subversive: Talking Peace in a Time of Empire

By Lee Griffith

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080286502X
• ISBN13: 9780802865021
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"