Peacemaking and Religious Violence Composition & Creative Writing "the Fire Chief

"the Fire Chief

Mike Brogan

Hazel delivered aid right to the Front Line risking her life to help people who had lost their homes

from birth 'there' to death eternity

seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely

Peacemaking and Religious Violence Composition & Creative Writing "the Fire ChiefFrom its very beginning, Christian faith has been engaged with religious violence. The first Christians were persecuted by their co religionists and then by imperial Rome. Jesus taught them, in such circumstances, not to retaliate, but to be peacemakers, to love their enemies, and to pray for their persecutors. Jesus's response to religious violence of the first century was often ignored, but it was never forgotten. Even during those centuries when