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Can War Be Just?

Aaron White I don’t think I have to convince anyone that war is evil. We all know that it is. Here are the statistics for three ongoing wars, as of Nov 18, 2023: Stats One of the main results of displacement is that children become more and more vulnerable to sexual exploitation, slavery, and being […]

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The Rise Of Anti-Humanism

n 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came to a halt and waited for other cars to do the same before proceeding through. Apparently, that is the rule it was taught—but of course, that is not what people do. So the robot car got completely paralyzed, […]

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A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

David Cramer, managing editor of the Institute of Mennonites Studies, lecturer at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), and teaching pastor at Keller Park Church shares about his recent book: A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists, and Movements for the Gospel of Peace.

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Spiritual Case For The Uluru Statement

How has race shaped US religion and politics? “Christian nationalism” has taken hold in the country, especially among white evangelicals. And the country’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is facing its own reckoning over racial issues. With Christianity Today Magazine’s global editor Morgan Lee. A landmark book called Statements From The Soul makes a powerful case that the […]

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CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY, DOMINION THEOLOGY, AND J6A

WORD OF WARNING FOR DEAR CHARISMATIC FRIENDS I have been listening to this series of podcasts on ‘Charismatic Revival Fury’ by Dr Matthew Taylor, from the Institute of Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, USA. Matt examines the history of this ‘Christian Supremacist’ movement, with its origin in ‘The New Apostolic Reformation’, whose apostles advocate […]

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The Hidden Footprints of God

By Joshua Moritz Psalm 77 declares “You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples…but Your footprints were unseen.” From the time of the Psalmist to the present day, both believers and skeptics have tried to make sense of God’s hiddenness. At the heart of the philosophical problem of God’s […]

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“Mere civility” a basis of tolerant society?

Teresa M Bejan There are few perennials in politics as predictable as the “crisis of civility”. Over the past three decades, this crisis has become a permanent affliction in liberal democratic societies — particularly those that define themselves by their aspiration to be tolerant, open, and free. So in the United States, or in the […]

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IS INDIA LURCHING INTO A GENOCIDE?

Harsh Mander on how India’s leaders have taken it to the edge of the abyss. Harsh Mander is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, and social activist who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal or religiously motivated violence. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, a research […]

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The Census, Christianity And Australia

The 2021 census data released this week shows that, for the first time, a majority of Australians do not identify as Christians. This continues a trend of steep drops in Christian identification at the census — from 74 per cent in 1991, to 61 per cent in 2011, to 52 per cent in 2016, to 44 […]

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ANTI-WAR SOLDIERS’ RESISTANCE

As Russians engage in another imperialist war many of us are praying that soldiers will disobey their orders to make war on Ukraine. Surprisingly, in spite of the way some of our politicians still try to co-opt the ANZAC tradition to promote militant ethno-nationalism, these resisters might find inspiration in the example of the often […]

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FIGHT LIKE JESUS

This is a beautiful book, with a vocabulary that’s accessible and style that’s delectable. It is also a brilliant book, with exquisite insightful reflections on every page that radically reframe our traditional perspectives of the Easter story, which we thought we already knew so well. It is intentionally a subversive book, that takes the message […]

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TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election. By Barton Gellman The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act. They are acting already. Who or what will safeguard our […]

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