For many of us, peace is something we imagine as a life void of opposition and tension. A calm home. A quiet heart. A life where nothing rubs, nothing breaks, nothing hurts. And while this is certainly aspirational, we know that life has inevitable conflicts. So as followers of Christ, we want to learn not to avoid conflict but instead transform ourselves into people who can navigate disagree, tension, hurt, and disappointment in the way that the Savior would.

Chad Ford has spent his life in the middle of some of the world's most painful conflicts—from war zones to family disputes—and he's learned that real peace requires work and mediation. And today, he's going to help us see that the call to be a disciple is, at its heart, a call to be a reconciler.

His new book is titled 70 x 7: Jesus's Path to Conflict Transformation and you can read it for yourself on Deseret Bookshelf + or at any Deseret Book store.