{"id":13946,"date":"2013-05-14T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T07:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=13946"},"modified":"2013-05-14T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T07:44:24","slug":"peace-must-be-dared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2013\/05\/14\/peace-must-be-dared\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace must be dared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading\u00a0an outstanding biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and highly commend it for you or as a gift:\u00a0 <em>BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy<\/em> by Eric Metaxas, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The book has many provocative and poignant moments. In the context of preparing my work program for the coming 3 years and reflecting on\u00a0the level of risk taking, I found the following from page 241,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no way to peace along the way of safety.\u00a0 For peace must be dared, it is itself the great venture and can never be safe.\u00a0 Peace is the opposite of security.\u00a0 To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself.\u00a0 Peace means giving oneself completely to God\u2019s commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God , not trying to direct it for selfish purposes.\u00a0 Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God.\u00a0 They are won when the way leads to the cross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/08\/14\/peace-conflict-and-grace\/\">Peace, conflict and\u00a0grace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading\u00a0an outstanding biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and highly commend it for you or as a gift:\u00a0 BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010. The book has many provocative and poignant moments. In &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2013\/05\/14\/peace-must-be-dared\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13946\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}