You can’t make a disciple of a man you just shot. You can’t make a disciple out of a woman killed by a Hellfire Missile. You can’t make a disciple out of a child who starves to death in the midst of America’s wars.
What is the truth about America’s wars?
If Jesus guides our feet on the path of peace, how can we revel in war?
In this episode of the GodArchy podcast, I make the antiwar case from both a Christian and libertarian perspective.
By: Randolph Bourne To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of…
I did some traveling late last week and had the opportunity to finish Scott Horton’s book “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan.” Two words of advice. Read. It.
The ethics of government may call for “fire and fury” to rain down on the heads of North Korean peasants in order to take out their “evil” leader. The ethics of Jesus do not.
The victims of U.S. drone strikes aren’t anonymous nobodies. They all have names.
But what of this notion that there’s no sense in opposing war and actively pursuing peace because “it won’t work in the real world?” Should we abandon active, vocal opposition to war because pursuit of peace does nothing but chase an unattainable utopian dream?
