Perspectives is a series of essays on faith issues that face Christians today an is designed to foster personal reflection and group discussion. What does the Bible say about the Christian response to terrorism and war? A lot, according to biblical scholar Virginia Wiles. In Peace: God's Infinite Justice, she argues that, above all else, peacemaking is the top priority in Go's plan for the world as conveyed in scripture and that Christians are called to be partners with God in bringing about peace. As the Gospel of Matthew tells us, there is blessing and the persecuted.