A Pacifist’s Appreciation on Veterans’ Day
Stanley Hauerwas, one of the most significant theological influences in my life, is a self-professed militant pacifist. He’s someone who believes passionately that nonviolent love is at the heart of...
View ArticleA Soldier’s Atonement: A Troubled Iraq Vet Seeks Out the Family He Harmed
The crusades usually get a bad rap. It’s hard for us to believe that Christians then got something right that we so often get wrong.During the crusades, for example, soldiers returning from the Holy...
View ArticleWere the Crusades Morally Superior to Paintballing?
This rant cum historical excursion has been brought to you by the article I read today in the NY Times, The Holy Grail of Battle Re-enactments. Being in church work, I’ve gone paint-balling a few...
View ArticleSyria: What Brian Zahnd Gets Right That Rachel Held Evans and Mark Tooley Do Not
Pope Francis has called for today to be a day of prayer and fasting for peace in Syria. Catholic or not, at a time when Christians are diffused over so many different communions and traditions, Pope...
View ArticleIs Christian Nonviolence Unrealistic? Is it Un-Christian?
Mark Tooley, at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, had this post recently, in which he wildly caricatures Christian pacifists, like Stanley Hauerwas. First, Tooley lobs the, predictable,...
View Article§1.14: Karl Barth and The Walking Dead
“Look, I know that I’m a shitty wife and I’m not winning any Mother of the Year awards, but I you to know that not for one second do I think there is malice in your heart. You’re not a killer, and I...
View ArticleMartyrdom and Martin Luther King
It was a wake-up call for me when, a few years ago, my sponge-of-a-student son seemed not to know that Martin Luther King was, like his Dad, a clergyman. A preacher. (Here he is pictured with Karl...
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Once the Roman Empire ‘became’ ‘Christian’ for all intents and purposes war became Christian too. Whereas in the original centuries of the Church’s history conversion to discipleship required the...
View ArticleInterview with Brian Zahnd
This week on the podcast we’ve got Brian Zahnd, author and the founding pastor of Word of Life Church in Missouri. About a decade ago, Brian had an epiphany/spiritual crisis that eventually led him...
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