Dave Andrews
Probably the greatest Muslim proponent and practitioner of nonviolent jihad was Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born in Utmanzai in 1890. His father, Behram Khan, was a wealthy Pathan who ran a large guest house on the main road to Peshawar. Behram Khan had many servants, but he always took great pride [...]

Dave Andrews
In Reconstructing Jihad, my friend Halim Rane, a brilliant Palestinian-Australian Muslim scholar, argues that the concept of jihad needs to be deconstructed – and reconstructed as a struggle for righteousness and for justice.
Quoting Fatoohi, Halim says ‘jihad is most accurately defined as “exerting efforts, in the form of struggle against something in the name [...]

According to the famous evangelist, Stanley Jones, the scriptures are not ‘the Word of God’. He says, it is Jesus who is ‘the Word of God’. He says ‘we honour the Bible, for it leads us to his feet. But the Bible is not the revelation of God. It is the inspired record of the [...]

Dave Andrews
I would like to suggest while much Christian Theology traditionally supports the basic assumptions that make it possible to program soldiers to kill, a Christ-like Sensibility opposes those set of assumptions which make a social construction of killing possible.

Christian Theology

Christ-like Sensibility

Traditionally believes
taking ‘an eye for an eye’
is [...]

Dave Andrews
I’ve just been reading a book called On Killing. It’s a study about killing in combat. And its not written by a pacifist propagandist, but by a credible military paratrooper psychologist who goes by the name of Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman.[i]
Grossman cites research that suggests that – contrary to some of our most famous [...]

by Jeremiah, Eugene and Me
Then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: `If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread [...]

By Jeremiah, Eugene and Me.
‘This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations: concerning Egypt…the Philistines…Moab… Edom…Damascus…Kedar… Hazor…Elam…Babylon…’ 46:1-2,47.1;48.1,7,23,28,34;50.1
Eugene Peterson says Jeremiah was designated as a prophet to the nations.’ Jer.1.5 ‘The word nations (goyim) specifically refers to the nations across the border, the others, the foreigners.’345 ‘The title [...]

by Jeremiah, Eugene and Me.
“I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels of silver. I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales. I took the deed of purchase –the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as [...]

By Jeremiah, Eugene and Me
“When he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”
Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time. Then King Zedekiah sent [...]

By Jeremiah, Eugene And Me.
This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in [...]

By Jeremiah, Eugene and Me

“Go to the Recabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the LORD… We have obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab son of Recab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine or built [...]

By Jeremiah, Eugene and Me

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to [...]