{"id":46882,"date":"2015-10-02T22:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46882"},"modified":"2015-10-02T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:11:03","slug":"the-peace-koan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46882","title":{"rendered":"The peace koan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; turning the wheel ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Erik Schelzig<\/strong> tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tenn. Senate Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonRamsey\">@RonRamsey<\/a> says Oregon shootings mean it&#39;s &quot;time to prepare,&quot; urges Christians to get handgun carry permits. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TNLeg?src=hash\">#TNLeg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erik Schelzig (@schelzigAP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schelzigAP\/status\/649966750717583360\">October 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <strong>Kevin Kruse<\/strong> responded<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Christ said &quot;blessed are the peacemakers,&quot; He wasn&#39;t talking about Colt single action revolvers.&#10;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HEnCjhTkZw\">https:\/\/t.co\/HEnCjhTkZw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinMKruse\/status\/649969881396350977\">October 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; and that&#8217;s about as neat and sweet a statement of the peace paradox as any I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>War and Peace: <em>yang <\/em>and <em>yin<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>John 14.27<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any promise of the cessation of war here &#8212; the peace offered here is a peace that&#8217;s operative in times of both war and peace.<\/p>\n<p>It must be peace from the warness of war, peace even in fighting, no?<\/p>\n<p>To my mind this is the <em>koan <\/em>all peace-lovers, peace-keepers, and peace-makers must grapple with: stillness within?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be returning to this &#8212; &#8220;the dance at the still point of the turning wheel..&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; turning the wheel ] . When Erik Schelzig tweeted: Tenn. Senate Speaker @RonRamsey says Oregon shootings mean it&#39;s &quot;time to prepare,&quot; urges Christians to get handgun carry permits. #TNLeg &mdash; Erik Schelzig (@schelzigAP) October 2, 2015 Kevin Kruse responded When Christ said &quot;blessed are the peacemakers,&quot; He wasn&#39;t talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,1151,705,840,688,741,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-koan","category-paradox","category-peace","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46882"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46902,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46882\/revisions\/46902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}