“[People who follow Jesus] have enemies in particular and curious ways, ways that do not makes sense within the structures of violent power-keeping around us. Instead, we are a people who have set down our lives within the reconciliation of all things…
We love our enemies when we extend an invitation to a form of life where those who have the power to destroy others no longer exercise the self-destruction of hatred, hoarding, and violence. We love our enemies by creating a world that releases them from the wages of their own violence.”
–Melissa Florer-Bixler, How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, p. 41, 43
