Gerald W. Schlabach is emeritus professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and formerly the chair of justice and peace studies there. He is the author of A Pilgrim People: Becoming a Catholic Peace Church (Liturgical Press, 2019), lead author of Just Policing, Not War (Liturgical Press, 2007), and coeditor of At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security and the Wisdom of the Cross (Herald Press, 2005).