Peace. It sounds simple, right?

But what happens when the idea of peace becomes a weapon?

In this conversation, my friends Myron Penner and Tripp Fuller pull back the curtain on one of the most quietly complicated tensions in religious community life: the space between preaching peace and practicing it.

We talk about peace church communities, long celebrated for their pacifist roots, and ask a harder question: when does a commitment to peace cause us to start protecting the wrong things?

And as we wrestle with that question, we talk about what it actually takes to build something real. Peace that's rooted in justice, not just the absence of noise.

This one is going to challenge some assumptions.

Tripp's Bio & Links

Tripp Fuller is a podcaster, theologian, minister and competitive home brewer. Currently, he is visiting Professor of Theology at Luther Seminary. He received his PhD in Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. For over 12 years Tripp has been doing the Homebrewed Christianity podcast where he interviews different scholars about their work so you can get nerdy in traffic, on the treadmill, or doing the dishes. Last year it had over 3 million downloads. It also inspired a book series with Fortress Press called the Homebrewed Christianity Guides to topics like God, Jesus, Spirit, Church History and so on. Check out Tripp's work at:

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Myron's Bio & Links

Myron Penner is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre for Faith and Learning at Trinity Western University (TWU). He began working at TWU in 2005. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University in 2007. Myron's primary research areas are epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion but also has interests in philosophy of science and twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Check out Myron's work at:

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