Here’s a little known fact from one of the most respected, loved and emulated people around the world. The following information has been detailed in some […]

By Warren Harrington in From the Eye of the Storm, eds., Kaplan, Bove. 4. Letter to Marcellinus Marcellinus, Imperial Commissioner at Carthage, wrote Augustine for help […]

SECTION XX. The injunction of John the Baptist to the soldiers, to be content with their wages, considered. One of the principal arguments drawn from the […]

By Chuck Jones. Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, my subjects would fight.” Fighting as the world fights, boycotts, petitions, […]

For generations the church has been polarized between those who see the main task being the saving of souls for heaven and the nurturing of those […]

By E.R. Craven The question and the answer are but illustrations of that law proper to all languages, but pre-eminently to the Greek, by which a […]

On Killing by Grossman Author of the Civil War Collector’s Encyclopedia F. A. Lord tells us that after the Battle of Gettysburg, 27,574 muskets were recovered […]

By Bill Wachtel In defense of Christian participation in war, some mention Cornelius as having no negative mention in the New Testament. All agree that Christ […]

I grew up agnostic and, like the Apostle Paul himself confesses, “a violent person.” Now by violent I don’t mean I was looking for a fight, […]

Non-resistance preserves; resistance destroys. It is much safer to act justly than unjustly; to endure an offense rather than resist it by violence; safer even in […]

Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, vol. 1., ed. Lacoste.   The New Testament shows with the cross of Jesus the paroxysm of violence and of its opposite. […]

From The Myth of a Christian Nation. Shortly after the Gulf War in 1992 I happened to visit a July Fourth worship service at a certain […]