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In the Mail: John Howard Yoder’s For The Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical
Last week, in my desperate need to read more and more of John Howard Yoder’s work in my precious free time, I ordered his For The Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical. The book actually comes at...
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Athanasius's Case agaist the Military- Industrial Complex
6.But when they [the Greeks and Barbarians] have come over to the school of Christ, then, strangely enough, as men truly pricked in conscience, they have laid aside the savagery of their murders and no...
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Glenn Beck Accuses Jewish Prophets of being communists, fascists, and...
Although the name of this blog is entitled Political Jesus, I normally do not bother with pinhead pundits, but I felt like I had to expose the idiocy of Glenn Beck’s recent attack on the Hebrew Bible....
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Barack Obama: Our New War President
Tomorrow night, President Obama will be publicly announce a new troop surge in Afghanistan as a new chapter in America’s struggle to remain a republic and not an empire. Documentarian Michael Moore has...
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Early African Theologians on Christian Nonviolence
Tertullian is a man after my own heart. And if I lived in the third or fourth centuries, I would definitely be under the catechism of theologians in Alexandrian Egypt! Here are some quotes: Christians...
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On Paxophobia: The Fear of Pacifists
Should political communities feel threatened by the residency of Christians? To threaten is to some extent, give a good reason for an individual or community to fear an individual, a community, an...
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New Biblioblog: Being T C
T C Moore, formerly of Theological Graffiti has a new biblioblog called Being TC. Go ahead, check it out, Subscribe to it. RodtRDHRod the Rogue Demon Hunter, Preacher of Hope | Black Scholar of...
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Pacifism and Early Christian Morality/Doctrine
So throughout today, Nick and Brian have had an interesting discussion on Pacifism and violence. I think we can all agree that all of humanity and creation are God’s property. So really, no one has the...
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T.C. Moore on C.S. Lewis’s Misguided Views of War
Cover of C.S. Lewis I have never really been a big fan of C.S. Lewis’s work, Mere Christianity, or the Chronicles of Narnia. I will not apologize for it (sorry to all of those believe C.S. Lewis is...
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No, War Cannot Save Us: Against Intervening in Libya
Why this Black Christian Liberationist, Pacifist, and Libertarian Opposes A War-Mongering Nobel-Peace Prize Winning President Operation Iraqi Freedom! Operation Enduring Freedom! Operation Odyssey...
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But But What About Hitler? What about Qaddafi?
The Disreputable Situational Ethics of Conservatives It seems to me that there is that same question hanging over the head of the pacifist (myself included) that there will always be a question related...
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Enemy Love and Usama Bin Laden’s Death
43 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” 44But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be children of...
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End the ‘SHED: Why America Should Stop Playing World Police
This week, Joel and Christian have made their dissatisfaction known with American foreign policy. Of course, American interventionism ever since World War II has been justified under the guise creating...
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Ezra 8:21-23: John Howard Yoder and Jewish Pacifism
A Diasporic Hermeneutic of Peace “For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and calvary to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had to the king that the hand of our God is...
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Pacifist Stanley Hauerwas Criticizes C.S. Lewis on war #Narnia
I say C.S. Lewis had an impoverished imagination. Why? Because he could not imagine a world without war. And you know, if you can’t have a world without war, you can’t have a world without the...
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No George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s Death Was NOT God’s Plan
DEFENDING GOD’S BENEVOLENCE WHILE COMING OUT AGAINST VIGILANTE JUSTICE AND ANARCHY The Christian blogging community has had a ground swell of protest against George Zimmerman’s latest claims that it...
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Not From @TheOnion: the European Union Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? #FAIL!
European Union Nobel Peace Prize 1933 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Norman Angell on exhibit to the public at the Imperial War Museum, London, England (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Let’s see, so, one would...
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C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters: War Is A Better Teacher Than Jesus
02.14.06 (Photo credit: Urthstripe) In the blogosphere, it has been noted that Clives Stapes Lewis had some really bad arguments against pacifism (are there any others, really?): check out Stanley...
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The #Apocalypse Of the #NRA: God and Guns #NewTown
Today, I would like to take the time to respond to the New Town tragedy. Usually in pop culture when one refers to “the apocalypse,” they are referring to some horrific notion of the end of the world....
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Why I Didn’t BECOME A Pacifist
My Life Long Journey As A Non-Violent Christian This blog post is in response to Kurt Willems’s post from a few days ago, asking “For those who hold to some version of “nonviolence:” What caused you to...
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