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...
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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.
Dr. Douglas Jacoby
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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...
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Dr. Preston Sprinkle
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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...
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Eberhard Arnold
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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...
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John Mark Comer
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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...
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Dr. Preston Sprinkle
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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...
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John Mark Comer
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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...
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Zack Johnson
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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...
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Dr. Myles Werntz
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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...
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Calvin Sodestrom
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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. ...
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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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...
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Dr. Douglas Jacoby
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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...
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Michelle Wright
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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...
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Tom A. Jones
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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...
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Dr. Stanley Hauerwas
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The Only Road to Freedom: Martin Luther King, 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...
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Dr. Stanley Hauerwas
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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...
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Michael Burns
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Church & State: Blessing or Blunder?
Excerpt taken from Escaping The Beast: Politics, Allegiance, and Kingdom by Michael Burns, used with permission. Just two years later, in...
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Dr. Douglas Jacoby
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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...
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Jon Sherwood
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"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...
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Jon Sherwood
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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...
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Edem Morny
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Jesus And Peace
One of the abiding difficulties of living as a disciple of Jesus and attempting to teach others about the way of Jesus is the wall of...
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Kirk R. MacGregor
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Nonviolence in the Ancient Church & Christian Obedience
Abstract In the course of Christian history, nowhere has the tension between the teachings of Jesus and valid application of those...
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Dr. Ronald J. Sider
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Christian Nonviolence and Church History
Jesus’ message of peace for all time The earliest Christians embraced Jesus’ message of peace. Indeed, up until the time of Constantine...
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Jimmy Humphrey
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Why I Don’t Own A Gun, And Would Never Kill Someone
In America I’ve not found too many Christians who believe in the non-violent ways of Jesus. If anything our ethic on the issue has been...
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