I just couldn’t move on from that trouble prone, first century, Jewish misfit mystic, Paul, without a few more words regarding his approach to power. “Power is made perfect in weakness,” he dramatically declares (2 Cor 12:9). Not bad from a fella who was destined to become arguably the second most important figure ever in the […]
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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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