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Jesus Peace Collective is made up of a diverse and ecumenical group of Jesus followers that don't necessarily agree on all matters, but share a common conviction about the nonviolent and active peacemaking teachings of Jesus and the early church.
How to Win Enemies
Augustine of Hippo and Howard Thurman of Daytona Beach follow the shocking implications of Jesus’ teachings on violence in the Sermon on...
Dr. Myles Werntz
2 min read
Love Your Enemies, Unless…?
A home school mom's journey into peacemaking and Christian non-violence. “Of course I would grab a knife from the kitchen and stab the...
Daniella Hatfield
5 min read
Violence & the "Un-Triumphal" Entry
John Markowski, pastor at Big Apple Church in New York, discusses the topic of violence as he looks at the "Un-Triumphal Entry" of Jesus...
John Markowski
1 min read
America and Its Guns
I just finished James Atwood’s book America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé and I’m sitting here stunned. The statistics, the stories,...
Dr. Preston Sprinkle
6 min read
Mark Twain, "The War Prayer" (ca. 1904-5)
The American writer Mark Twain wrote the following satire in the glow of America’s imperial interventions. It was a time of great and...
Dr. Douglas Jacoby
4 min read
Christians in Law Enforcement?
My question is regarding what Jesus taught regarding disciples in law enforcement. I am an ER nurse, and I have always strongly supported...
Dr. Douglas Jacoby
1 min read
The Few. The Proud. The Plowshares?
The following post is written by my friend Sgt. Dean Meadows (USMCR). Dean served several years in the Marine Corps, but after coming to...
Dr. Preston Sprinkle
4 min read
Is Pacifism Enough?
Germany, 1934. Eighteen months after Hitler’s rise to power, Plough’s founding editor warned of the threat of a second major war – and...
Eberhard Arnold
2 min read
Jesus on His Most Radical Idea: Enemy Love
We finally come to the last, and most radical, of Jesus’ six examples of his way: enemy love. For Jesus, it’s not enough to reject the...
John Mark Comer
1 min read
Nonviolence: In Brief
I want to thank Doug Wilson for the challenging and thoughtful dialogue about the issue of guns, violence, and the Christian way. I’m...
Dr. Preston Sprinkle
8 min read
Jesus on Breaking the Chain of Violence
Few of Jesus’ teachings are more thought-provoking and jarring to our culture than what he has to say on nonviolence and enemy love. To...
John Mark Comer
1 min read
Color Vision of a Conscientious Objector
The picture above captures me frantically running around during basic training at the Air Force Academy (Summer 2010). I had heard that...
Zack Johnson
5 min read
Howard Thurman’s Contemplative Nonviolence
The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics. Revered by the leaders of the...
Dr. Myles Werntz
7 min read
Why I am (Mostly) Pacifist
I finally feel free to admit it. I am (mostly) pacifist – I say mostly because my beliefs and thoughts have’t been field tested yet. ...
Calvin Sodestrom
4 min read
Still Searching for Christian America
“At times of crisis it is a natural human reaction to turn to the past for support.” [1] These words were written by evangelicals, to...
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
5 min read
Disciples & War?
First, in the face of severe suffering such as that many Americans began to experience on September 11th, our human response is naturally...
Dr. Douglas Jacoby
4 min read
Jesus – the Passive Peacemaker?
I am news reporter and communications specialist by profession, I am not a theologian or a scholar. But when I think about the peace...
Michelle Wright
3 min read
A Place to Begin: Jesus
Perhaps you are asking, “Where is the best place for me to begin to understand what Christian nonviolence is all about?” Start with...
Tom A. Jones
5 min read
The Only Road to Freedom: MLK Jr. and Nonviolence
Of all the silly claims sometimes made by atheists these days, surely one of the silliest is that Christianity was in no way...
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas
13 min read
The End of Just War: Why Christian Realism Requires Nonviolence
Pacifists always bear the burden of proof. They do so because, as attractive as nonviolence may be, most assume that pacifism just will...
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas
14 min read
Church & State: Blessing or Blunder?
Just two years later, in AD 313 , an unimaginable blessing occurred. Constantine and his co-ruler Licinius made Christianity a legal...
Michael Burns
4 min read
Who Loves Enemies?
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for...
Dr. Douglas Jacoby
5 min read
"It's Just War" - Should Christians Fight?
Anchor-Cross Publishing and Followers of the Way sponsored a debate on the subject of just war. They sought to bring leading thinkers...
Jon Sherwood
1 min read
Subversive Confrontation - Jesus' Third Way
In the context of the Kingdom of God, Jon Sherwood takes a look at the passion week of Christ in the gospel of John to show how Jesus...
Jon Sherwood
1 min read
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