John Howard Yoder is amongst the prominent Christian scholars, who have argued that the ethics of Christian pacifism finds its foundation in the Hebrew bible. Himself, a pacifist from the Mennonite tradition, he was arguably America’s most influential pacifist theologian of the twentieth century. Michael Cartwright and Peter Ochs are among a growing number of […]
It is entirely appropriate that the Christians who adopt an active pacifist life, model their commitment on the life of the God with skin on man from Galilee, Jesus. He is for Christians the quintessential pacifist par excellence. Difficulty arises, however, when one enters the vast and varied terrain of Hebrew scripture. It is there
There is a spiritual up-rising, sweeping through the land and its happening amongst the non-religious post-modern youth of this age. We are now livings in a time of ‘all-inclusive universal spirituality.’ This happy state of affairs is a fortunate derivative, a spirit freeing spin-off, if you will, of the political and cultural phenomenon known as
Spiritual Revolution In This Age Read More »
Taking the mystique out of everyday mystic practice may not be the easiest of tasks, but it is a necessary one. The mystic descriptor tends to lend itself to remote images of wacky out-there folk, doing their decidedly odd spiritual thing, far removed from the rest of us mere mortals. The mystic goes to the