Ep 230: Work and Worship, with Matthew Kaemingk
LCI Staff
What is the connection between worship on Sunday and work on Monday? Why do ministers and worship leaders struggle to connect what they do on
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Reparations: Good or Bad?
Jacob Kim
Slavery is offensive and incompatible with the principles of freedom and freedom minded people, but it is a part of US and world history. Wrestling with this history and deciding what to do has many perspectives. One perspective involves paying reparations: monetary compensation for damage caused. This review is not a comment on the legitimacy of reparations, rather it is a review of the book, authored by Kwon and Thompson, which strives to call the church in America to repent for its part and participation in the slave trade.
Violence Will Not Save Us
Ruth Ryder
As I have previously written, the early Christian virtue of patience (and therefore non-violence) and the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle are in agreement: the world cannot
Does God Take Part in Wars?
Dr. Norman Horn
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
How Private Generosity Embarrassed the Greatest Empire of the West
Dr. Jamin Andreas Hübner
It was the early 360s CE. Emperor Julian (361-363) paced the floor nervously amidst his secretaries. There was a fresh political problem to deal with
Joseph Judson Taylor, Man of Peace
Laurence Vance
Since the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, two words that have rarely been seen together are “Baptist” and “pacifist.” We have instead been subject to things like high-profile Baptist leader Jerry Falwell writing a defense of the Iraq war titled “God Is Pro-War” …
The Great and (Un)Holy War
Laurence Vance
One would think that if there is any group of people that would be opposed to war it would be Christians. After all, they claim to worship the Prince of Peace. But such is not the case now, and such was not the case 100 years ago during the Great War that we now call World War I.
Christians and the Communist Boogeyman
Laurence Vance
David E. Settje, Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars (NYU Press, 2011), xi + 233 pgs., hardcover, $36. This informative
Erasmus on the Just War
Laurence Vance
“The most just of wars brings with it a train of evils—if indeed any war can really be called just.” ~ Erasmus In the first
Erasmus on Soldiers
Laurence Vance
“Who could possibly tell how many hardships these idiots of soldiers put up with in their camps? And they deserve worse just for being willing
