Articles for tag: Christian Pacifism

June 28, 2009

Â By David A. Fiensy I grew up in southern Illinois where the appeal to the old-time religion was almost a weekly observance. It seems like we were always trying to get back to the “old Bible days” when they had church on Sunday nights, sang hymns composed by Fanny Crosby, and held revivals in tents. If some infraction occurred in the community (such as a public official being arrested in an illegal activity), we blamed it on modernism. What we needed, we protested, was to get back to that old-time religion. And, of course, we thought every Christian should

January 20, 2008

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square

What About War?

By Robert F. Hull Jr. For almost 50 years I have been haunted by this question. It began, I suppose, with Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Man He Killed,” which I first read as a junior high school class assignment: Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! _ But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him and he at me, And killed him in his place. _ I shot him dead because— Because he was my foe, Just so: my

November 5, 2006

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

JUST WAR? – A Valid Concept

By Jack Cottrell To my knowledge, in Christian history no one has ever tried to defend war as such, or to justify indiscriminate participation in warfare. However, for centuries many Christians have believed that in any given war, usually one side of the conflict is evil while the other side is righteous or just. In the most basic terms, those who hold this view generally say that the aggressor (the one who starts the war) is guilty of sin, while the defender (the one fighting to repel the aggressor) is not. From the standpoint of the latter, the cause is

November 5, 2006

Jason Bembry

Culture & Public Square Politics & Government

JUST WAR? – A Question of Kingdom Allegiance

Jason Bembry shares the questions that reshaped his assumptions about Christian participation in war, engaging Jesus’ teaching, early church practice, Restoration voices, and Romans 13.