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 […]

From Domesticated Glory: How the Politics of America Has Tamed God God is not merely an interest of ours, He is Lord of the creation, of […]

By David R. Plaster Does the requirement of obedience to the government relieve the believer of individual ethical responsibility? The activist view is most likely erroneous. […]

The Word of the Cross: Christ Again Before the Tribunal pamphlet. Surely, if Christians were forbidden to fight to preserve the Person of their Lord and Master, […]

Distortion of the Christian Freedom Message by Organized Religion by Marian Hillar Proponents of violence in Christian religion, especially against those who do not think as […]

by Bill Wachtel In so-called “replacement theology,” which is very widespread, literal, ethnic, national Israel is no longer in view as God’s covenant people, but rather […]

Exerts from Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul Violence seems to be the great temptation in the church and among Christians today. Thirty years […]