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January 2016

January 18, 2016

Ten Great Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes On Non-Violence

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; begetting the very...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Falwell’s Fearful Conceal-Carry Response is Not Worthy of the Gospel.

In the wake of yet another active shooter incident, evangelical leaders have been rattling the...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Liz Kanoy, Editor at Crosswalk, Has a Thoughtful Article on My Piece On the Language of Terrorism

Liz Kanoy, an editor at Crosswalk.com, is one of the writers I check in with...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

The End of Revenge: Nonviolence & the American Fascination With Getting Even

When Vester Lee Flanagan left behind his attempts to explain the unexplainable—the reason he shot two...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

Pastor Punches Kid, but It’s Cool… “There’s Times That Might Be Needed”: A Little Friday Funny

First, let me say that I don't believe for one minute that this actually happened,...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Is There Any Hope for Peace in the New Year?

--- “Bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

Favorite Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

If I had to pick one theologian who has had the most influence on my...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Lent 6A, Palm Sunday: John 19:12-19 – Powerful / Not-Powerful

Here's a transcript of my sermon from last week (Palm Sunday). If you are a...

April 15, 2014

Walter Brueggemann’s 19 Theses Revisited: A Clarification from Brueggemann Himself

In September 2005, Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann sat with a group of church leaders...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Epiphany 7A – Matthew 5:38-48; “Love Your Enemies”

This is the sermon I preached last week at my church Redemption Church. If you...

February 25, 2014

On How Small the Christian Peace Movement Is (w/ Gratitude to the Anabaptists)

"It is sometimes discouraging to see how small the Christian peace movement is, and especially...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Mark Driscoll’s “Pansy-Post”: Jonathan Merritt Gives Non-Violence a Platform to Resist the Macho-Gospel

I’ve taken some flack for commenting on Mark Driscoll's antics now and then. Each time...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

Superman: Coming to a Church Near You

There was an interesting article on the CNN belief blog yesterday. It's about the marketing...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

Theologian Billy Abraham Rips Christian Non-violence, Calls it “Morally Corrupt”

William J. (Billy) Abraham has a new book out called Shaking Hands With the Devil:...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Nate Silver Adds Some Context to Gun Control: The Nerds Bring the Numbers

It's always good when an argument is brewing and the boiler plate rhetoric gets old...