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Intimidation: A Violence Against Women in the Church

By Melinda Cadwallader “If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together, purely and simply, for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.” - Matthew A…
Bonhoeffer, Favoritism and Sanctified Murder

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog Before Bonhoeffer became a pacifist he presented a speech in Barcelona in which he discussed the relationship between Christianity and ethics. In this presentation he spoke o…
The Antithesis of The Centrality of War And Violence In Culture

By JN Hong I had to bite my tongue in class when the topic of war came up. I find that my views on war and violence are often quite controversial. I suspect that it is because they are controversial, that people are not…
Violence As A Last Resort

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog Most people don't desire to be violent. Most people do not plan on being violent. Most people dislike and try to avoid violence. In my experience, most people say "I'm not a vi…
Moderation and Religious Violence (Part One)

At some point, we must recognize that the real battlefield in this world is not between Muslims and non-Muslims but between extremists of any stripe and the anti-extremists of all faiths. - Feisal Abdul Rauf, A Call to R…
The Problem of Christian Soldiers

By Nick Don at Theopolitical I am convinced (it is well known) that the New Testament expects a strongly countercultural lifestyle for followers of Christ. Part of that strange discipleship is a renunciation of violence…
A Foundation for Non-violence

The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. -Joan Ba…
Don't Be a Hero, Be a Pacifist: Christians in a World at War

By Matt at The Church of No People Spring is in the air…along with war. It’s just kind of a perinneal thing, that old “necessary evil.” So as the missles fly over Libya, Iraq winds down, and Afg…
Religious Violence: The Center of the Issue

By Nick Don at Theopolitical William T. Cavanaugh, author of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict, recounts seeing a poster at a university campus where he was speaking. The…
Whipped into Shape: Trying to Reconcile the God of Peace with the Rhetoric of Violence

By Dianna at Jesus Needs New PR Four months ago, when I traveled to Seoul for some vacation time (a visit that included going up to the DMZ and stepping into North Korea briefly), I visited the Korean War Memorial. It&rs…