If Jesus is a pansy, I want to be one too – Reflections on Christlikeness
OCT 31, 2013 | BY: KURT WILLEMS -- Recently a pastor wrote an article about why God is not a pacifist. He writes, "Those who want...
Mark Driscoll's Badass Jesus
OCT 26, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- Mark Driscoll, the attention grabbing minister of the Mars Hill megachurch, is at it again. He’s pushing...
RE-Membering Memorial Day
Remember…
…that life is a gift. To call it a gift is to imply that we did not earn it. Life is grace. Peace preserves life. So on this Memorial Day weekend we remember that God’s intention for this world is sha...
Indicting Violence: A Pacifist Review of "The Hunger Games"
75 years after the end of the world, reluctant teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen brings it to an end yet again.
Welcome to The Hunger Games, a trilogy dripping with the weight of oppression and the dread of ...
Being an Oxymoron
A few years back I was a guest on Steven Colbert’s popular television show, The Colbert Report. He introduced me as an Evangelical who is liberal on social issues. Then he added, “He’s a living oxymoron!”
Sa...