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Yeshua in Palestine
Rob Reid, yet another Jesus Politicker, has written a piece, challenging Christians to take a second look at the situation in Palestine, not from the perspective of the Pentagon, or ...
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My friend Michael DeFazio and I have been having a discussion on the ...
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The true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our ...
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From A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, 2nd ed.: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is ...
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Over on a friend's blog, there is running a dialogue going on about ...
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Capitalism vs. Democracy, Part II. In my last post, I summarized a lecture by ...
Christian Ethics
Early Christian Nonviolence: Index
December 24th, 2007Intro | 01 Isaiah | 02 Jesus | 03 Paul | 04 Hebrews | 05 James | 06 Peter | 07 John | 08 On Tradition | 09 Ignatius | 10 Polycarp | 11 Justin | 12 Tatian | 13 Athenagorus | 14 Irenaeus | 15 Clement of Alexandria | 16 Tertullian | 17 Church Orders | 18 Origen (1) | 19 Origen (2) | 20 Origen (3) | 21 Cyprian | 22 Dionysius | 23 Maximilian | 24 Lactantius | 25 Arnobius | 26 Archelaus & Manes | 27Church/World
Subverting the Voting Rite
November 9th, 2008My friend Michael DeFazio and I have been having a discussion on the significance of voting here in the U.S. This is a big issue for Christian pacifists, usually influenced by strands of Yoderian and/or Hauerwasian thinking, despite the fact that neither Yoder nor Hauerwas ever said Christian pacifists shouldn't vote. (Yoder was a registered democrat right up until the day he died back in 1997, anHomosexuality
Levelling Christian Homophobia
August 3rd, 2008My fellow Christian pacifist and all-around e-friend Dr. Michael Westmoreland-White of Levellers has finally finished a one-and-a-half year long blog series, spanning 18 posts, arguing for full the inclusion and affirmation of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transsexuals in the church. Michael leads us through a patient discussion of one of the most important political (read: religious) issues of ouLiberation Theology
Yeshua in Palestine
November 13th, 2008Rob Reid, yet another Jesus Politicker, has written a piece, challenging Christians to take a second look at the situation in Palestine, not from the perspective of the Pentagon, or that of the Left-Behind reading, Charles Capps watching, dispensationalist Christian, but from the perspective of the peasant rabbi who walked among the occupied and exploited, and took the side of the oppressed. TakeMiscellaneous
All Over the Shop
May 26th, 2008To those of you who were/are involved in the dialogue on the James Cone thread, On White Man's Religion, I apologize for the big delay in my response. I'm sure most of you have lost interest by now, but I'll be attempting a comprehensive response within the next few days. In the meantime, I've been engaged about my Romans 13 paper by some members of Corpus Paulinum. Loren Rossen and I have beMovie Reviews
Empathy for the Devil
October 22nd, 2008If you're looking for an empathetic take on perhaps the most pathetic president in U.S. history, just head out to your local theater. Last night I saw Oliver Stone's latest, W., starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush himself (a.k.a. Geo, Dubya, Bushy, Junior, or as Laura once called him, "the Devil in a White Hat"). W. also stars Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, James Cromwell as Poppy Bush, Ellen BPauline Theology
Romans 13: Index
May 13th, 2008Romans 13:1-7: A Charter for Political Activism! By Thom Stark Introduction | 01 Imperial Perspective | 02 Ideal Government | 03 Divine Command Clause | 04 Against Anarchy | 05 Angelic Authorities | 06 Stoic Interpretation | 07 Spanish Mission | 08 Jewish Synagogue Authorities | 09 The Benefaction Convention | 10 Taxing Questions | 11 Social Volatility | 12 Not Ordained, Just Ordered | 13 ThePolitics
The Nature of Power
November 6th, 2008The true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. We're going to hold you toReligion/Science
6 Ways of Creationism: Index
December 6th, 2007For your convenience, here are the links to the entire 6 WAYS OF CREATIONISM series. Enjoy: Intro, Way 1, Way 2, Way 3, Way 4, Way 5, Way 6, SabbathSermons
Life & Death, and Resurrection
April 8th, 20071,964 years ago today, God raised Jesus from the dead. Why? Why did God do that? Why did God feel the need to raise Jesus from the dead? I hear some people say that the resurrection proves that Jesus is God. At first, I think, well, that makes some sense. If Jesus was God, death couldn’t really hold him down. So if Jesus was raised from the dead, that means he must have been God. But after aSocial Criticism
Let Them Eat Clay
September 26th, 2008"Let Them Eat Clay" - A Guest Post by Alex Giltner. In my Healthy Relationships course, we do a little class “social” exercise every week, in which three people write down answers to five questions, and then the answers are read, and the class needs to guess who wrote each answer. It is an exercise that a cynic like me finds incredibly dull, but the rest of the class seems to like it alrigTheology
A Wittgensteinian Reflection on Prayer
August 26th, 2008Over at Revolution in Jesusland, my good friend, and secular-lefty-radical-turned-radical-Christian-organizer, Zack Exley, has been asking Christians to explain prayer to him and his secular lefty "comrades" (pardon the allusion to SOCIALISM!). There has been some good reflection on the question there, but one reflection in particular warranted (at least so I think) what I call a "Wittgensteini