Restoring Peace

Using Lessons from Prison to Mend Broken Relationships

by Kirk Blackard

Forward by John Sage, Founder, Bridges to Life

Build Peace in Your Life - Victims of serious crime— abuse, assault, burglary, rape, murder— are engaging in a process of peace and reconciliation with Texas prison inmates who perpetrated similar crimes against others. Restoring Peace will teach you how to use this successful process to build peace with those you have hurt or who have hurt you. It builds on the power of faith and storoies to help you deal effectively with:

• Responsibility

• Accountability

• Confession

• Repentance

• Forgiveness

• Reconciliation

• Restitution

"A book that lays out a spiritual journey for us all to take. I hope it spreads like wildfire across this country." —        Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking

"A marvelous book about how to really restore any broken relationship." — Carol Vance, former Chairman of the Board, Texas Department of Criminal Justice and author of After the Leap

"A theologically sound book and a practical method of recon-ciling our personal relationships." — Sam Todd, Episcopal priest and author of An Introduction to Christianity: A first-millennium foundation for third-millennium thinkers