Blessed Are The Peacemakers
from Between Bread and Stone Hosted by Stephen R. Brewer, PsyD
In this episode of Between Bread and Stone, we slow down with the Beatitudes and hear them as they would have sounded on that first hillside: under occupation, under surveillance, and under the shadow of public violence. We move line by line through Jesus’ blessings, exposing the “counter-beatitudes” of Christian nationalism and the way empire keeps trying to steal words like “peace” and “persecution” for itself. We spend special time with “Blessed are the peacemakers,” asking who gets to wear that word today. Are peacemakers the ones who carry guns and battering rams in the name of order, or the ones who interrupt violence without becoming violent themselves? Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe
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