Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence is no more and hopefully no less than an ongoing commentary on Bonhoeffer’s extraordinary claim that if our common life rests on lies and injustice, then we cannot hope to be a community of peace. Accordingly this book is my attempt to display how the church by being the church serves the world. My oft-made claim that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just but to make the world the world has never been a call