As someone who believes that Jesus meant, without equivocation, what he said in the Sermon on the Mount, I am struggling to feel at home in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. After spending more than a year here, it’s clear to me that this diocese has largely made its peace with the sword, rhetorical denials [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus’
Struggling in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Posted: March 5, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: 161st Diocesan Council, Bishop Andrew Doyle, Episcopal Church, Episcopal Diocese of Texas, flag ceremony, Fort Hood, Francis Drake, Jesus, military, nonviolence, Roman
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Responses to “Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist” by Reinhold Niebuhr
Posted: February 23, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: christian realism, Christianity, Jesus, nonviolence, pacifism, Reinhold Niebuhr, theology
I’ve just read “Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist,” and here are my brief responses. I realize the following does not necessarily summarize that to which it refers. Niebuhr is a dense writer, so I’d encourage you to read the actual text if you want to know more. Here are my almost-stream-of-consciousness thoughts: Niebuhr [...]
Responses to Niebuhr’s Critique of Christian Pacifism in “Moral Man & Immoral Society”
Posted: February 16, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Jesus, Moral Man & Immoral Society, nonviolence, pacifism, Reinhold Niebuhr
I just finished reading Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man & Immoral Society, a work that greatly influenced President Obama’s formulation of the role of his faith in his foreign policy. This book contains much of Niebuhr’s thought about pacifism, nonviolence, conflict and violence. Here are my initial responses to his arguments: Niebuhr’s critique, along with many [...]
Tear the Sky Apart with Light
Posted: December 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Jesus, peace
Before the marvel of this night adoring fold your wings and bow, then tear the sky apart with light and with your news the world endow, proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease. Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace. … [...]
A Child Is Born
Posted: December 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, nonviolence
For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire. For a child as been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah [...]
Time to Stand Up
Posted: November 30, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christianity, escalation, Flobots, Jesus, Litany of Resistance, nonviolence, Obama, terrorism
The orders have been given. All that’s left is to give the speech before a bunch of strapping young cadets and install the procurator Augusti. Thirty-six thousand more troopsThirty thousand more troops, $1 million a piece, per year. More IEDs in response. More bombs. More night searches. More economic damage. Hope. Change. We’ve seen planes [...]
President Obama’s Lonely Walk to the Situation Room
Posted: October 25, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Cesar Chavez, christian realism, Christianity, COIN, counterinsurgency, Gandhi, Jesus, Lilly, Niebuhr, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, serenity prayer, Sermon on the Mount
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. “It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals.” –M.K. [...]
No no no no no
Posted: October 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: America, Constitution, idolatry, Jesus
Pretty sure my eyes are bleeding. [h/t Halden] Note how all the symbols of executive power are with Jesus, versus the systems of accountability, which are with the heathens. Also note that the Jesus who said this, 43 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” 44But I [...]
