Reviews of 70x7 are in!
My new book 70 x 7 is finally here!
I’ve written a new book!
Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation.
The book was released on April 7th. It’s jointly published by BYU’s Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book!
You can order the book on:
Amazon.com and Deseret Book NOW!
70x7 explores what it means to be a disciple of Jesus when we feel stirred up with anger in our families, neighborhoods, congregations, workplaces, online communities, and public forums.
It is challenging to heed Jesus’s call to “love your enemies” and to be peacemakers in times of deep conflict. As a professor of peacebuilding, a conflict mediator, and a follower of Jesus, this book is meant to be a primer for followers of Jesus who want to find reconciliation in the face of conflict. Step by step, I show how Jesus’s path of practicing 70×7 has the power to repair relationships by transforming destructive conflict into constructive peace.
Here are some early advanced reviews of the book:
“Chad Ford is in the elite ranks of Latter-day Saint peacebuilders. In Seventy Times Seven he reveals the secret to his effectiveness: he is just trying to follow Jesus. If you have felt the desire to respond to Jesus’s call to be a peacemaker but have been unsure how to do it, this book will be your inspiration and practical guide.”
–PATRICK Q. MASON, co-author of Proclaim Peace:The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict
“I’ve struggled to put into words all this book has to offer. It asked me to consider living a life of complete audacity, patterned on the most daring and unrestrainedly good life ever lived. This book is an antidote to estrangement and fear: it takes Christ’s teachings at face value, it offers patterns of peaceful discipleship, and it connects lofty goals with concrete practice.”
–JENNIFER WALKER THOMAS, co-executive director of Mormon Women for Ethical Government
“Mirroring Christ’s own path through a torn and tumultuous world, prophets have recently—and resoundingly—called the Latter-day Saints to make peace. For those unsure how to start in the face of seemingly overwhelming conflict, Chad Ford’s book forms necessary foundations from scripture and experience. As one of our most experienced and insightful peacemakers, he offers critical first steps for those called to live in love.”
–J. SPENCER FLUHMAN, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University
“Seventy Times Seven is an inspiring invitation to become more like Jesus in the way we face misunderstanding, conflict, resistance, and even hate. Through moving stories from his own life and Jesus’s astonishing teachings and example, Chad Ford makes the convincing case that by commanding us to love one another as he did, Jesus called each of us to join him as peacemakers. Seventy Times Seven is a guidebook on what it means to answer that call. In a world that is tearing apart, it's a message of supreme importance."
—JAMES L. FERRELL, author of The Peacegiver
Can't tell you how excited I am to finally see this book come out.