Love of Enemy: The Cross and Sword Trial

This book is a meditation on the urgent, life-giving mystery at the heart of justice-making and nonviolent resistance to evil and terrorism: The love of enemy to which Christ calls us. Necessarily, it confronts us with the church teaching of "Just War."

This examination is presented through a nonviolent witness which lasted from 1998 to 2000 and which culminated in the Cross and Sword Trial in Toronto, Canada involving bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, Michigan, other church people, and many supporters.

The church community, in the face of global injustice and terrorism, has become spiritually impoverished and weak after centuries of 'justified", "just", and "holy" wars. Christ offers radical freedom - far from the degrading lies, debilitating myths and false solutions of the institution of war.

This work attempts to explore that freedom...and contribute to an understanding of gospel nonviolence through a communal mediation on the most feared, and yet urgent, of mysteries: love of enemy.