Amongst the points I have stressed in my previous posts about pacifism, Blessed are the peacemakers, and Christian pacifists; is the inescapable conclusion, that if adopted as a way of being in the world, pacifism requires extreme self-sacrifice. The metaphor of walking toward the cross is entirely applicable here. And none more so than the […]
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If you looking for a mission statement, that defines the life and work of the Galilean, the ultimate ‘God with Skin on man,’ that they nailed to a tree. It is all beautifully crystallized in Luke’s gospel, right at the get go of his modus operandi. The ethic supreme that must be pursued above all
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Historically, many young men have been easily seduced by the imagined glory of war, and old men are all too often the ones who fan the violent flames. Meanwhile, women throughout the ages have carried the terrible burden of both. Serious peace activists embrace a complete upturning of the tables and nothing less. It should
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One of the oft repeated idioms of one of my former spiritual teachers was, “God is invisibly present amongst us.” This turns out to be a profoundly scriptural formula for the ‘Unseen God,’ found in both Hebrew and Christian Scripture. I have written elsewhere in this blog about the thorough Jewishness of all aspects of
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