And on earth peace
by Joe Roos, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India
As a former Mennonite Church USA pastor (Hyattsville [Md.] Mennonite Church) and now a religious education teacher and associate pastor at Kodaikanal International School and Church in India, I appreciated J. Nelson Kraybill’s article “And on Earth Peace” (July 3).
As a pastor located in the “belly of the beast” (Washington, D.C., area), my preaching, teaching and activism often focused on the American Empire’s attempt to cloak its ungodly values and practices in Christian language and images. In India, I no longer live in the midst of empire, but in my teaching and preaching I still need to show non-Christians that the values and practices of the United States are different from the values and practices of the kingdom of God. Indeed, Jesus’ peace goes far deeper and broader than any supposed Pax Americana.
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