Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict

“Proclaim Peace is an important, desperately needed book. In a world filled with so much tumultuous conflict, this book is deeply relevant to the personal and socio-political issues we face as Latter-Day Saints. I have especially seen an explosion of interest from young Latter-Day Saints in peacebuilding here at BYUH. This generation of Latter-Day Saints is the most socially conscious we’ve ever had. They want more than personal peace from the gospel. They want to be able to use the gospel to make the world a better place. Not only does the book do an excellent job of walking the reader through both historical and doctrinal aspects of peacebuilding, it builds a blueprint of how peacebuilding can be part of our living faith.”

“Proclaim Peace provides readers an intelligent, faith-promoting perspective on how peace is central to the Gospel, and how the Book of Mormon can be read to think more critically about the justification of violence and the necessity of pursuing peace. Compared to many other faith traditions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is very new to exploring an ethics of war and peace, and this book provides Latter-day Saint young adults some important tools for looking at their religion’s scripture and doctrine more deeply and understanding war and peace more fully. There is a massive void when it comes to Latter-day Saint voices in peacebuilding, so this work represents a huge, important contribution.”

As someone who grew up within the faith, I am always delighted when scholars help me see even more clearly the power of the restored gospel to effect loving peace, both in the individual soul and in societies on a grander scale.