Articles for tag: Abu Ghraib

February 8, 2009

By Karen J. Diefendorf Â CLICK HERE TO READ PART 1 OF THIS ARTICLE Â In part one of my article, published in last week”s issue, I outlined the church”s traditional criteria for deciding if it is moral for a nation to go to war (ius ad bellum) and how to conduct oneself during a war (ius in bello). I asserted Christians have a tradition by which we can determine when and how we should enter the political debate, and I implied that choosing not to enter that debate has deeply moral implications. Most of our Stone-Campbell Movement congregations support

February 1, 2009

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

War . . . What Is It Good For? (Part 1)

By Karen J. Diefendorf Â Maybe you remember the protest song from a generation ago, “War (What Is It Good For?).” The answer, of course, was . . . “absolutely nothin”!” I would debate that, as would many other veterans and citizens. The song points out many horrors of war, while assuming there are no horrors in “peace at any price.” No one longs for peace and the absence of war more than the men and women serving in the armed forces””the people who fight the wars. In my years in the military, I never knew any military leader who