Consider this priest wrote this 28 years ago..... Time for major risks for peace, no matter the cost? His language of risk taking resonates with todays language.
"What we desperately need to reunderstand is that it is dangerous to be a true Christian. Anyone who takes his or her Christianity seriously will realize that crucifixion is not something that happened to one man nineteen hundred and fifty-odd years ago, nor was martyrdom just the fate of his early followers. It should be an omnipresent risk for every Christian. Christians should—need—in certain ways to live dangerously if they are to live out their faith. The times have made this apparent. Today the times demand of us that we take major risks for peace. And in combating the entrenched forces of the arms race—the principalities and powers of this world—that very much includes the risk of martyrdom.… It is time for communal, congregational action and corporate risk." (Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)
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