Peace is not a mood. It is not a hashtag, a worship set vibe, or a warm feeling you manufacture while the world burns in the background.

Written by a Protestant layperson, not a platformed pastor, Peace in the World, Peace in Ourselves is a blunt, deeply hopeful field manual for Christians who refuse to choose between global realism and honest faith.

Across thirty chapters that move from war zones to living rooms, Dustin Gross confronts the hard questions: What does Scripture actually mean by peace? Why does violence pay so well? How do we tell the truth about Ukraine, Gaza, failed states, nationalism, corruption, and information warfare without either baptizing our tribe or drowning in despair? And what does any of that have to do with anxiety, burnout, spiritual numbness, and the quiet wars inside our own heads?

This is not a memoir. Not a sentimentality project. Not a think-piece padded for people who like the sound of their own outrage.

Instead, you get: