Jason Porterfield, founder and author of EnemyLove.com, grew up the son of two loving Christian parents who both served in the US military. For most of his childhood, Jason was raised in a very patriotic, Southern Baptist church. Then one day in college, some Mennonite friends triggered an intense intellectual grappling within Jason to understand Jesus’ teaching on violence and enemy love.
However, it wasn’t until Jason made his home in Canada’s poorest neighborhood, and later on in one of Jakarta, Indonesia’s many slum communities, that he discovered he was desperately at a loss for how to cultivate and spread God’s shalom in neighborhoods crushed by injustice and poverty. He had intellectually affirmed Christian pacifism, yet he had no idea of how to actually go about nurturing peace in those places where it is painfully absent!
Currently, Jason oversees the North America sending office of Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor, an international network of Christian communities dedicated to living and ministering amongst the poor in the slums of Asia’s megacities and the inner-city ghettoes of the West. Their vision is to see the urban poor and their communities transformed by the power of Christ.
EnemyLove.com is dedicated to promoting Jesus’ approach to peacemaking by helping Christians understand and apply it. Part of its purpose is to help Jason refine the content of what will one day, Lord willing, become a published book on this topic. Towards that end, Jason encourages and specifically requests feedback on every reflection. In other words, you can help him improve the book’s content and also discover which topics readers deem most important and engaging.
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