This poetry turns into an agent of transformation in delivering a brand new course for our lives. It provokes a bit holy agitation by means of tossing poems like pebbles into placid swimming pools of water to reason a few waves. Such poetry offers us prophetic signals to concentrate on issues that subject, like peace now not struggle, like monetary and immigrant justice, like an earthy ardour for all times greater than dying.

This e-book of poems describes a hyperlink among poets and peacemakers:

Maybe peacemakers are like rebel poets,
Irrelevant, dissident, brushing off the prestige quo,
Imagining a imaginative and prescient of an international that will get along

This poetry—too risky for correct wing religion—will provide a source for church activists and for taking the next move of braveness. it is going to be a better half for marching to another drummer and listening to the nonetheless voice of God amplified via usual events.

In "Prophetic Poetry" Faust takes an inventive method of peacemaking and exposes our irrational, morally bankrupt dependancy to violence and materialism. whereas difficult our cozy lives, "Prophetic Poetry" bargains a necessary imaginative and prescient of our international if we want, in Faust's phrases, to show our 'false peace,' wake up the “shopper who walks round in a trance,” and remodel that which 'drains our soul of pleasure and life.' He makes use of 'the mind's eye of a poet… to the touch the center' and celebrates the fervour and braveness it is going to take to foster a 'revolution in values.'
—Ira Haritt
Kansas urban software Coordinator, American associates provider Committee

Ron Faust works with Interfaith employee Justice, American acquaintances carrier Committee, Immigration Justice Advocacy stream, and Disciples Peace Fellowship in Kansas urban. Born in Eugene, Oregon and growing to be up in Vancouver, Washington, his academic odyssey incorporated an undergraduate measure from Northwest Christian university (NCU), MDiv from Christian Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Drew college. formerly he collaborated with Toni Faust on a ebook approximately grand parenting and a fictional paintings referred to as Gaps through his pen identify Mac Keyes. Now a retired Minister-Sailor-Curmudgeon became Poet, he follows his ardour through giving his realization to peace and justice issues.