This guest post is by Steve Wilder. Steve is an electrical engineer and homeschooling father of four. There are three views Christians hold about war: (1) Some believe Jesus taught ...
The article below was written in January 1866 by David Lipscomb, an important figure in the Churches of Christ in the United States. Learn more about Lipscomb’s background here and ...
The following article was published by David Lipscomb in The Gospel Advocate on roughly January 30, 1866 — not even a year after the surrender of the Confederate States at Appomattox. ...
The following is adapted from our forthcoming book, 100 Answers to Tough Questions for Libertarian Christians. To be informed when we launch the book, sign up for our newsletter! Question: Should ...
A Hidden Life is legendary director Terrence Malick’s latest film. It tells the true story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, his fight against the Nazi regime, and his struggle ...
Rene Girard: “'Saul, why do you persecute me?' (Acts 22.7). This is the fundamental question. Christian conversion is our discovery that we are persecutors without knowing it. All participation in ...
The saddest part of Christian leadership in America is its schizophrenic attitude towards war perpetrated by the state both at home and in foreign soil. It is a bizarre sight ...
America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 had a Frankensteinish effect. It created a monster.
President Trump’s decision to relocate approximately 50 U.S. troops within Syria set off a firestorm of outrage and disbelief. I am not particularly interested in the responses of the usual ...
One gains a glimpse of the mystery of the number, three; the deity is neither one nor many; its perfection goes beyond the multiplicity of which duality is the root… ...
Bloodshed Leads to More Bloodshed Whatever happened to the rifleman? I’ve got a job for the rifleman. He really knew how to settle the score When mercy knocked on the ...
Our culture is addicted to violence. That includes most Christians. A few months ago, I went to a men’s conference at a large evangelical church. During the very first session, ...
In 2003, a nation was still reeling from the effects of a deadly terrorist attack that cost thousands of lives. Like any crises, a scapegoat was needed to appease a ...
I am currently conducting research in the Gospel Advocate, a journal of the Churches of Christ founded in the 1850s, for a project involving a reprint of David Lipscomb’s book ...
“Google should be ashamed,” says Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for George WMD Bush who is a “is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he ...
There is no shortage of new books on the relationship between religion/theology and violence. Does Religion Cause Violence? is the second from last in an eight-volume series called “Violence, Desire, and the ...
Legendary foreign correspondent Robert Fisk gave an informed account from the ground on the Syrian (likely non-) gas attack. You can read his account via the UK Independent here. It is ...
Donald Trump has become the first sitting United States President to meet with a North Korean Leader. Depending on who you read, the summit was a distraction, offensive, nearly miraculous, ...
All artistic masterpieces have something in common, according to René Girard. Akira Kurosawa’s movie Seven Samurai, better known to western audiences as The Magnificent Seven, is one of those masterpieces. ...
Disappointingly (but not surprisingly), a prominent evangelical leader has once again provided alleged moral justification for war in the Middle East. Russell Moore is to be commended for the cautious ...
It seems in life, that every blessing eventually turns into a curse. The house you’ve always wanted now requires $20,000 in maintenance. The child you’ve always wanted turns into massive ...
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of Israel are too many ...
Christians Serious About Justice Cannot Pretend History Began Yesterday Readers of The Gospel Coalition could hardly be blamed for thinking the present-day Libyan slave trade was spontaneously created from a ...
“I’m the secretary of defense. We defend the country.” ~ Secretary of Defense James Mattis Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis retired in 2013 after 41 years of military ...
After a tragic event like the one brought on by a white terrorist in Las Vegas, predicting the ensuing social media conversation is easy. Gun control is too lax! say ...
For the past two weeks, the sign in front of a church near my house has advertised a “patriotic service” for Sunday, July 2. Other churches around town undoubtedly held ...
1. That the world’s problems can be solved by passing more laws. The more rules there are, the less freedom we have. There are now more criminal laws in the ...
Memorial Day, as we all know, is not just the official beginning of the summer vacation season. It is a federal holiday that commemorates U.S. soldiers who died in military ...
Holding an anti-terrorism conference in Saudi Arabia is so absurd that it defies comprehension. Everyone who knows most anything about Middle Eastern affairs knows that Saudi Arabia is the world’s ...
Human desire is a magnetic force. Whenever a person desires something, the desire takes hold of their whole being. Another person sees that person’s desire for an object as a ...
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