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 […]