Reading the bible with Jesus can attach our roots as a community to the already existing ecosystem of people that speak out uncomfortable truths and offer pictures of alternative realities. This is the ancient tradition of prophetic imagination. Listening to Jesus, the old testament prophets, and others we can get ideas about how to live lives that work against systems that justify and benefit from violence. In many ways, as we do the difficult work of giving voice to peaceful modes of living, we can be lead by artists, who have historically played a central role in providing images, visual and otherwise, of alternative imaginative realities.