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Joshua D. Ambrosius
Should Christians Support the rEVOLolution?
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul recently argued for a “Golden Rule” in foreign policy in the first South Carolina GOP debate. “We endlessly bomb [other] countries,” he said, “and then we wonder why they get upset with us?” Is this really such a crazy idea to boo?
Remember it was Jesus of Nazareth who said, “Whatever you want people to do to you, do that to them” (Luke 6:31 from N. T. Wright’s Kingdom New Testament, 2011). It would be almost comical, if the effects weren’t so real and devastating, to watch the parade of evangelical Christians who ridicule this foreign policy of Jesus yet work so hard to put Dominionists and “chickenhawks” in the White House.
A Gift for Blago? And You and Me…
Friday, January 6th, 2012
“My life is ruined.”
These words were uttered by Rod Blagojevich to Judge James Zagel on December 7 as he pleaded for mercy. His life is ruined, with “nobody to blame but [him]self.”
Early on in my spiritual and political walk, I bought into the “law and order” brand of evangelical Christianity, supporting the death penalty and other harsh stances on crime. Many American Christians, institutionalized to think this way, back tough laws and sentencing with one eye on the Law given to Moses and another on Paul’s reference to the state brandishing the sword to punish evil (Romans 13). Recall those who cheered the Texas death machine at the presidential debate not too long ago?
