Matt Wiebe’s blog about faith and life.
Mark Van Steenwyk has an interesting post up at Jesus Manifesto called The 25 Lessons of Nonviolence. I don’t agree with all of them (and Mark doesn’t necessarily either), but they are thought-provoking nonetheless.
A few of my favourites:
Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive […]
Why is it that the types of Christians most comfortable with thinking of themselves as different than the world are most inclined towards unquestioning consumerism and war-mongering?
Note: I have no research to back this up, only impressions, perceived patterns and, no doubt, prejudice.
Although I am convicted of the truth of nonviolent and pacifistic approaches to everything, suppose for a moment, that we’ll grant that there are enemies out there that must be defeated by force. This enables us to look at the logic of violence from this angle: what if we did, indeed, defeat all of our […]
What’s the cost of war? Obviously there’s so many ways to measure it in terms of the devastation it wreaks on untold numbers of lives. But, let’s be more crass here: show me the money. The National Priorities Project shows its version of the Cost of War:
Currently, the War in Iraq has cost $341,390,328,877.
Instead, we could […]
After my previous post which spoke about issues of war, I found it remarkably coincidental that a Lit reading that I needed to write a short paper on was a war poem. More specifically, it is a shoking anti-war poem that exposes the reality of the trench warfare in World War I. Written by Wilfred […]
