The Work of Peace: Truth, Justice, Repair, and Hope Under God in a Wounded World
Peace is not the same as quiet.
The Work of Peace is a theological and practical exploration of peace in a wounded world. It asks what happens when calm is purchased by silence, when unity protects the powerful, when forgiveness is demanded without safety, and when wounds are acknowledged more readily than repaired.
This page offers an introduction to a completed manuscript now being prepared for submission to commercial publishers.
About the Book
The Work of Peace begins before we call anything peace. It asks what kind of quiet we are tempted to trust, who is protected by it, who pays for it, and what truth must remain unnamed for that quiet to continue.
Its governing claim is that peace is truthful life under God. Peace is not mere calm, niceness, emotional regulation, politeness or the absence of open hostility. It is truthful, justice-bearing, mercy-shaped, embodied, relational, communal, institutional, public and creational.
Moving across Scripture, shalom, trauma, moral injury, safeguarding, mediation, restorative practice, institutional repentance, public memory, digital hostility, belonging, land, climate, water and future generations, the book seeks a form of peacemaking that refuses both revenge and denial.
Its concern is peace that can bear truth: peace with justice, mercy with moral clarity, forgiveness without coercion, repair without haste and hope without amnesia.
This Book Explores:
Why peace must be judged by moral content, not atmosphere.
How false peace can hide fear, coercion, institutional self-protection or public forgetting.
Why apology is not always repentance, forgiveness is not the same as trust, and reconciliation is not simply reunion.
How protection, timing, safeguarding, process, memory, restitution and repair belong to the work of peace.
How churches, households, institutions, nations and communities can face wounds without revenge or denial.
What it means to seek hope without amnesia in a wounded world.
Who This Book Is For
This book is written for those who long for peace that is deeper than calm, for those who have seen truth managed in the name of unity, and for those who seek to walk beside wounded people, households, churches, communities, peoples and places with wisdom, steadiness and hope.
It will especially speak to pastors, leaders, safeguarding workers, mediators, counsellors, institutional decision-makers, public theologians, community builders and thoughtful Christians seeking peace with justice and mercy with moral clarity.
Publication Status
The Work of Peace is a completed draft currently in process toward submission to commercial publishers for publication consideration.
No publication announcement is being made at this stage. This page is provided to introduce the work, its purpose, its themes and its intended contribution.
Read This Overview if You Are Asking…
What is the difference between peace and quiet?
How can truth be told without revenge?
What does justice require when harm has been minimised or managed?
How should Christians think about forgiveness, trust, reconciliation and access?
What does repair require in households, churches, institutions and public life?
How can hope remain honest after wounds that cannot simply be undone?
Reader Care Note
This work speaks about coercive control, abuse, institutional betrayal, racial injury, trauma, public injustice, moral injury and other wounds. Some pages may need to be approached slowly. You do not owe difficult material uninterrupted attention.
Where there is current danger, abuse, suspected abuse, safeguarding concern, legal matter, medical need or urgent risk, seek appropriate local services, authorities or professional support.
Related Books
For oppression, liberation and the inward narrowing of human life, see Into a Spacious Place. For the emotional life that peace must carry truthfully, see The Spacious Heart. For a practical model of inner leadership under grace, see Who’s Driving the Bus?
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