Andrew Klager
Dec 26, 20182 min read
“Bethlehem has opened Eden: come, let us see”
“Bethlehem has opened Eden: come, let us see.” (Orthodox Kontakion of the Nativity) After his brief historiographical preamble, St. Luke beg
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Andrew Klager
Jun 22, 20182 min read
Should We Venerate Martyrs or Those Who Use Violence to Prevent Martyrdom?
Although nuance is important and required when making any comparison, there’s still a conspicuous contradiction in Christianity’s historical
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Ted Grimsrud
Jan 22, 20182 min read
There’s Power in the Blood: The Key to the Book of Revelation
In Revelation five, Jesus is shown to be the Messiah who can open the great scroll. “For you were slain and by your blood you ransomed for G
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Stephen Backhouse
Sep 29, 20173 min read
Explaining Away Jesus' Nonviolence
The second I read the essay title I knew what was going to happen. In my job as a theological educator I mark a LOT of essays. I have grown
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Andrew Klager
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Peace, Secularism, and the Failure of Christianity
I have no evidence for what follows; this is a work in progress and is one observation with which many complementary observations can certai
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Andrew Klager
Aug 8, 20172 min read
Violence and Our Embarrassment Over the Problem of Evil
Military intervention that Christians support seems to be partly the result of embarrassment over our inability to articulate a convincing s
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Derek Flood
Jul 17, 20172 min read
You Can't Get to the Right Answers Without Asking the Right Questions
For many evangelicals, when they speak of their commitment to nonviolence, this is understood primarily in terms of something you abstain fr
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Mark Northey
Jul 5, 20172 min read
Nonviolence as Becoming Ourselves
In the beginning, God created all things, but the human being remained unfinished—stunted in the first Adam's apostasy. Since God purpos
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Andrew Klager
Jun 21, 20172 min read
Violence as Anti-Sacrament
When we consider the sacramentality of the world, the physical reality with which we all contend is sacramental in the sense that it has the
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