Introducing the latest release from Englewood Press!
Of Grace and Bombs: A Peacemaker’s Iraq War Journal
by Shane Claiborne
Step into the Iraq War with one of America’s foremost activists and peacemakers, Shane Claiborne.
In 2003, Shane Claiborne and a Christian peacemaking team traveled to Baghdad. As the war began and American bombs rained down, Claiborne kept his friends and community members in the U.S. up-to-date through a series of emails and journal entries.
Part first-hand historical record, part memoir, and part theological exploration, Of Grace and Bombs rouses the consciences of American Christians and challenges them to more closely follow Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
More relevant than ever, these journals will help answer the question: How should I respond to war, violence, and global crisis? To whom does my ultimate loyalty belong?
Includes:
-a timeline of the Iraq War
-a brand new introduction and afterword from Claiborne
-Claiborne’s personal photos from the journey
This book is essential reading for Christians in an age of war and crisis, when we all must ask ourselves what it means to be a peacemaker.
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Praise for Of Grace and Bombs
“Shane’s journal changed me. I cried my way through, and also wanted to rip my hair out, while reading Of Grace and Bombs.
I learned in detail just how much I did not know. Our government lied, and thousands of innocents were injured and died, including U.S. soldiers–for what? For the whims and greed of those at the helm of a “Christian” nation. We try people for crimes against humanity and issue sanctions for the very things we do and continue to do! “Why? Why are they bombing us?”, an Iraqi woman cried. I cry out and groan with her and with the children and elderly who are suffering and dying because of the death worlds the U.S. created and continues to create. The only thing that a person reading this book can do is repent, beg God for mercy, and then become an agent of change by bearing witness to the loving, non-violent, and peacemaking way of Jesus. Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God!
I am going to tell everyone I know to read this book. You should too.
Thank you, to the people of Iraq who have shown us what it means to be like Jesus. Thank you, Shane, and to all those mentioned and not mentioned in this journal, all of you who stood firm and put your lives and welfare at risk in the name of Jesus. May we imitate you.”
–Marlena Graves, author of Bearing God: Living A Christ-Formed Life In Uncharted Waters
“Shane’s dispatches from Iraq under siege took me back to a formative couple of weeks in my life when I witnessed the horrors that religious nationalism can unleash firsthand and, at the very same time, the power of nonviolence to open doors to a better future. It was a gift to relive those days through Shane’s eyes and remember the faith that sustained us in that furnace – and propels us still.”
–Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of Revolution of Values
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