Hey everybody. Before we get started with today's episode, I just wanted to let you know that Restore tickets are now available with early bird pricing.

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now at faithmatters.org slash restore. Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

Today we're so excited to be sharing a conversation with our friend Chad Ford. Chad is a conflict

mediator, peace educator, and associate professor of religious studies at Utah State University.

He spent decades working in some of the most entrenched conflict zones in the world,

from the Middle East to South Africa to Northern Ireland.

He's also the author of a new book called 70 times 7, Jesus' Path to Conflict Transformation,

published by Desert Book.

The book explores a question that feels more urgent than ever.

How do we follow Jesus as peacemakers in a world so often shaped by fear, division, and violence?

Our conversation with Chad moved from the personal to the global,

from tensions in families

and faith communities to devastating conflicts that we see on the world stage.

And through all of it, Chad points back to Jesus as a radical model for how to live, engage,

and help transform the world around us.

Chad reminds us that Jesus' path is anything but passive.

It doesn't mean disengaging or avoiding hard conversations.

It means choosing to engage with both courage and compassion.

It means refusing to meet harm with more harm, and instead walking a path that invites healing,

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