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 ‘nonviolence’
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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President Obama Rejects the Narrow, Dogmatic Views of the Jedi
Posted: February 28, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Episode III, Gandhi, Jedi, King, Nobel, nonviolence, Obama, Revenge of the Sith, Sith, Star Wars, war, war in Afghanistan
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 [...]
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 [...]
Afghan Youth Call for Peace
Posted: December 22, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, nonviolence, Our Journey To Smile, peace
Our Journey To Smile just published a new video showing Afghan youth calling for peace. Check it out: Hakim with Our Journey To Smile is a semi-regular commenter on Return Good for Evil. This is great work, Hakim. Keep it up.
President Obama Disgraced Himself at Nobel Ceremony
Posted: December 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, Sermon on the Mount
Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. The views expressed are his own. Say no to escalation in Afghanistan by signing our CREDO petition at http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/saynotoescalation/. Join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter to show your opposition to the war. But make these your [...]
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 [...]
I Hope My Neighborhood Watch Doesn’t Use Kalashnikovs…
Posted: November 14, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian-based defense, Community Defense Initiative, El Guapo, Jim Michaels, nonviolence, Rethink Afghanistan, Three Amigos, USA TODAY
If you only read the first paragraph of this Jim Michaels’ USA TODAY story, you might walk away with a nice feeling about civic life in Afghanistan: KABUL — U.S. and Afghan officials have agreed on a new nationwide strategy that will funnel millions of dollars in foreign aid to villages that organize “neighborhood watch”-like [...]
