| Kingdom Ethics Wins CT Award |
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"Just Peacemaking" author Glen Stassen (Fuller Theological Seminary) and his protégé David Gushee (Union University) deserve high kudos for claiming the Christianity Today Book Award for 2004 in Theology and Ethics. Their collaborative work, "Kingdom Ethics," merits the award for its general focus on the kingdom of God and specific dealings with the Sermon on the Mount. Chapters in the book range from prayer to creation care, covering topics inbetween such as marriage/divorce, war, and advances in biotechnology. Published by IVPress, its voluminous 496 is unusual for an ethics book. But the content contained within combines readability and a large degree of timelessness.
Stassen also endorses the Pentecostal Peace Fellowship. "I give thanks for the formation of the Pentecostal Peace Fellowship. We are called to follow Jesus, who calls us all to be peacemakers, and I pray that the PPF can help churches form their own peacemaker groups and help recover and deepen and make more articulate the original Pentecostal vision of peacemaking and nonviolence. Being part of an inward-journey, outward-journey peacemaker group in my church has deepened my own prayer life and my joy at mutual support and shared discipleship more than I can say." Glen Stassen, Ph.D.
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