For followers of Jesus, God can be imaged as a warrior, but only as a good warrior-one struggling alongside others for peace. This God is always satyagraha — truth-force, soul-force, connecting us with others in the ongoing struggles for justice and peace. God is never a spirit of vengeance or rage to be hurled at others, as if "we" embody all goodness and "they" all evil.

Carter Heyward, God in the Balance