Deep Peace: Finding Calm in a World of Conflict and Anxiety

Experience deep wholeness in your life that springs forth from the peace of God.We live in a fearful, anxiety-driven age where the problems and challenges of the world assault us from every direction and every media source, and they far exceed our abilities to respond to them. The sense of desperation that often comes of this leads to discord and violence: from bitter, cutting remarks to the atrocities of war; from pervasive racism to knee-jerk micro-aggressions. It contributes to our current, peace-bankrupt social discourse, leading to patterns of dismissing, dividing from, condemning, or hating people.But what if the root of these problems is not found out there, in the situations, the information or misinformation of what's happening in the world? What if they come from here: in our minds, hearts, thought-life, and emotions?In Deep Peace, Todd Hunter, founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, analyzes the anxiety and desperation of our current moment and brings it before a biblical framework of profound peace. This book provides practices to help Christians value and actively seek peace, becoming people of reconciliation in ordinary life. Deep Peace:Uncovers the ten things that are most harmful to peace in a person's life.Unpacks the "Trinity of Peace" found in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and how we can find rest in each person of the Trinity.Reveals spiritual practices that will teach you how to pursue an inner calm and become the kind of person that meets conflict with love and renounces fear.Deep Peace is a timely benediction that offers a practical and spiritual guide to recenter believers in the peace of Christ. Review 'Deep Peace plunges us into the subterranean chambers of a peace-saturated heart and helps us wrestle with the challenging social issues of justice for the sake of a needy world. I highly recommend this book.' -- Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline 'This book is as vital as it is timely, offering a practical and spiritual guide to recenter believers in the peace of Christ--a peace that loves kindness, seeks justice, and renounces all fear.' -- Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor, Calvin University, and author of Jesus and John Wayne 'Todd Hunter takes aim at our psyches and our consciences with a biblical word that goes far beyond a calmed nervous system or a Zenlike tranquility. This book will help us find peace in these tumultuous times, even with our frenetic schedules.' -- Russell Moore, Christianity Today 'Peace is not about withdrawal from the world; it is not sanctified inaction. It is the posture from which we engage the world confident in the goodness of God. For those looking for spiritual resources to lead them through this fractured moment, I highly recommend this book.' -- Esau McCaulley, assistant professor of New Testament, Wheaton College 'Far from offering a quietist, self-help approach to curing anxiety, Deep Peace is filled with earthy wisdom that comes from a lifetime of following Christ and pastoring and teaching the church. I recommend it to all who seek to know the God of peace.' -- Tish Harrison Warren, Anglican priest and author of Liturgy of the Ordinary 'With patient, expansive, and incisive reflections, Bishop Todd Hunter shows us the possibility of living in the peace we were made for. In an age of deep anxiety, this book is a true gift.' -- Rich Villodas, lead pastor, New Life Fellowship, and author of The Deeply Formed Life 'Deep Peace invites readers on a journey to discover the ultimate path to the biblical concept of peace--shalom. My prayer as you read Todd Hunter's book is that your heart will be comforted by the God of all peace and that the Spirit of God will use you to be a bearer of peace to a troubled world.' -- Ed Stetzer, Wheaton College 'I am so pleased that Todd Hunter has written this book when so many are crying out for peace between nations, between pe