The Road to Shalom
The Road to Shalom is a production of Hands of Hur, a faith-based nonprofit committed to helping people make sense of the world in which they find themselves. This podcast channel is dedicated to exploring what shalom is, where it's gone, and how it can be restored. Fran Sciacca, the Director of Hands of Hur, is the host.
The Road to Shalom
"Are Peace-Keeping and Peace-Making Synonyms?"
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Do you see yourself as a "peace-maker" or a "peace-keeper"? What difference would it make if you got this right? Or wrong? In any worldview that believes peace-keeping should be the priority, change is viewed with suspicion. Even change in the right direction. Threats to our personal peace and way of life—if uniformed by the purposes of God—result in us fighting for what's important to us, rather than what matters most to God.
In this sixth and final interview with shalom-makers, Fran interviews his oldest son Ben, a veteran in peace-making in his own right. Ben's twenty years in urban space has convinced him that peace-making is often ignored or neglected by believers, not because it's wrong, but because it's difficult.
You'll be nudged out of your comfort zone, but generously wooed into the circumference of truth is this interview.