What Did Jesus Really Teach About Violence? A Reflection on a Hard Conversation Among Friends

Over the past day or so, I&rsquo;ve found myself caught in a deeply emotional and challenging conversation with several friends—fellow believers—about Jesus, violence, and what it means to faithfully follow Christ in a broken world. It’s the kind of discussion that forces you to pause, reflect, and grapple with the deep tension between human instincts for self-preservation and the radical ethic of…