peacemaking
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Many want to paint war as virtuous, distorting the mercy of God as weak. These would steal your soul and have you thank them.
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In the Beatitudes, Jesus says “Blessed are the peacemakers”. It is at the heart of what we’re called to do.
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Episode 10 December 16, 2021
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The Beatitudes remind us that what we get wrong about peace, equality, and generosity is that it ever comes at anyone else’s expense.
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We often treat the remembering of history as inoculation or as a subjective experience. But it is the very stuff of reconciliation.
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These two are a wonderful contradiction, pushing our expectations for how we respond to matters of war and violence and matters of active peacemaking.