The Twin Poles of Advent

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

The Scandal of Reading 37 | Tiffany Kriner on Louise Erdrich’s LaRose

Tiffany Kriner joins Claude Atcho to discuss Louise Erdrich’s novel, LaRose, as it relates to the fruit of the Spirit: Peace.

The Irenic Wiseman: James Hilton’s Unforgettable Mr. Chips on Peace and War

The classic novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips addresses age-old questions about the proper human response to the martial savagery surrounding us.

Persuasion 155 | Silent Night

There’s a tension between the peace we sing about and internal chaos we so often experience during Christmas.

Why Was It So Hard to Review Ferdinand?

What both secular liberals and conservative Christians struggle to accept about pacifism in bulls.

Rearing Boys to Be Peacemakers in a World Bent on War

When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.

CAPC Magazine, November 2016: ‘Cultivating Shalom’

Humans have longed for true peace—the wholeness and rest of God’s shalom—since the garden rebellion.

LOL Interwebz: Guns Don’t Grill Bacon. People Grill Bacon.

What does it mean that a video described—albeit with some irony—as “maybe the most American video ever” is essentially a double-barreled death-celebration?