Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World by Jon Huckins
- Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Mission/The Global Church
Mending the Divides
Mending the Divides
Summary
Peacemaking is the mission of God, so it should also be the vocation of his people. But do we know what it means to be makers of peace? Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart offer a theologically compelling, richly personal, and intensely practical set of tools that equip us to join God in the restoration of broken relationships, unjust systems, and global conflicts.
Mending the Divides Summary
About Jon Huckins
Jon Huckins is a pastor and the cofounding director of The Global Immersion Project, a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. After much international travel and study in the Middle East, Jon focuses his writing and speaking on peacemaking, local/global engagement, and activating the Church as an instrument of peace in our world. Jon has written for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT. His books include Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community and Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling, and he is a contributing author to multiple books. Jon regularly speaks at churches, universities, and conferences and has a master's degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters, and one son, where they colead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill. Jer Swigart is a church planter, a social innovator, an organizer, a professor, and the cofounding director of The Global Immersion Project, a peacemaking training organization that forms, equips, and mobilizes individuals and communities to enter any kind of conflict to heal rather than to win. He was the founder and lead pastor of The Open Door Community, a courageous collective of people pursuing God's dream for the San Francisco Bay area, and he is a contributing author to a number of books that focus on theology, leadership, justice, and reconciliation. A modern-day peacemaker, Jer has found himself contending for restoration in beautifully bizarre corners of our global village. Whether in the tribes of northern Pakistan, the slums of India, the red-light districts of Southeast Asia, the violence of Israel and Palestine, or the racial injustice of his own neighborhood, Jer loves people in a way that disarms violence and dismantles divides. His engagement within national and international conflicts has formed him into a guide for the church as she seeks to leverage her influence as an instrument of peace in our world. A sought-after speaker, Jer frequently teaches in the areas of peacemaking and conflict transformation, faith and culture, neighbor and enemy love, spiritual formation, culture creating, and innovative leadership. He completed his undergrad at The University of Northwestern-St. Paul and has an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary, where he received the prestigious David Allen Hubbard Award. He currently resides with his family in Bend, Oregon.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Lynne Hybels
1. Confused, Divided, and Paralyzed
2. Speaking of Peace
3. The Divine Pattern
4. Everyday Conflict, Everyday Peacemaking
5. See
6. Immerse
7. Contend
8. Restore
9. Time to Begin
Appendix 1: Building a Road Map
Appendix 2: A Peacemaking Library
1. Confused, Divided, and Paralyzed
2. Speaking of Peace
3. The Divine Pattern
4. Everyday Conflict, Everyday Peacemaking
5. See
6. Immerse
7. Contend
8. Restore
9. Time to Begin
Appendix 1: Building a Road Map
Appendix 2: A Peacemaking Library
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Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World by Jon Huckins
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InterVarsity Press
2017-08-18
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