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Violence touches all of us. Its roots are deep and entangled around issues related to race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and economics, among others. Violence pervades our past, shapes our present reality and threatens our future. Violence is not far removed from our lives. It is very close to home, indeed, it is often in our homes. Children see murders on the street, witness domestic violence in their homes and are assaulted with a constant stream of violence on the movie screen, on the television and on the radio. Children not only observe violence on a daily basis, they are often its victims. Adults have often responded to violence through isolation, building higher walls and fences, buying more sophisticated burglar alarms, purchasing guns for protection and abandoning life in the public sphere. Meanwhile the governments response is too often to build more prisons, eliminate opportunities for rehabilitation and cut prevention programs which would offer young people an alternative to violent street and homes. But the question that is that Does the Bible condemn violence? The fact is the Bible contains plenty of violence, some of it promoted by God. God demanded genocide of pagan