Violence

In the World

Just in time for Reign of Christ Sunday

Nov 19, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

Has the lion been considering lying down with the lamb in Washington DC? If so I missed it--but this seems to be the assumption behind a couple recent commentaries.

On the Shelf

Buddhist Warfare

by Michael K. Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer, eds.

If you meet the Buddha

Oct 15, 2010 by David Heim

Generalizing about a religion is a dangerous thing. A generalization that had seemed safe was that Buddhism is a peaceful religion. It's all about compassion, isn't it—about renouncing desire and learning to empty yourself?

Living by the Word

Be the kingdom

Isaiah 65:17–25

Mar 23, 2010 by Jin S. Kim

The promise of Isaiah 65 is that God is doing a new thing. There will be a new creation: a new heaven and a new earth. In this new dispensation things are going to change big time. “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox.” No longer must one consume another to survive in this new world.

Editor's Desk

Silent on guns

Why aren't we talking about this?
May 19, 2009 by John M. Buchanan
Why aren’t we talking about guns? A week before Easter, three Pittsburgh police officers were shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance. Apparently they were met by a 22-year-old man wearing a bullet-proof vest and armed with several guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle.
Editor's Desk

The end is life

"Love is the victor"

Apr 21, 2009 by John M. Buchanan

Every year we preachers eagerly look for help with the daunting challenge of preparing an Easter sermon. Never are we as acutely aware of our own limitations, intellectual and spiritual, as when we try to find words to express the reality that a dead man didn’t remain dead.

Books

Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Bruce Chilton

The Violence of God and the War on Terror

Jeremy Young

Texts of terror

Jun 03, 2008 reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
News

At Kenya funeral, Kobia decries criminal violence

Causes more deaths than warfare
Feb 20, 2007
Criminal violence, like the murder of a retired Presbyterian missionary and her daughter during a carjacking in Kenya, is claiming many more lives than warfare, lamented Samuel Kobia, the head of the World Council of Churches.
Books

Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us

Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker

The Nonviolent Atonement

by Denny J. Weaver

The Glory of the Atonement: Biblical, Historical and Practical Perspectives

Roger R. Nicole, Charles E. Hill and Frank A. James, eds.

Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience

JoAnne Marie Terrell

King, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement

Robert Sherman

Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus

Stephen J. Patterson

Violence, Hospitality and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition

Hans Boersma

Cross purposes

Mar 22, 2005 reviewed by S. Mark Heim
Religion may be killing us. The good news is that in our post-9/11 world there is a widespread concern about religion and violence. A December 2003 Minnesota poll, for example, showed that 77 percent of respondents attributed a fair amount of the cause of the world’s wars and conflicts to religion.
Books

Sexual Violence and American Manhood

T. Walter Herbert

Sexual Violence and American Manhood

Jun 01, 2004 reviewed by Leon Howell
Sexual violence against women—pervasive in our society—is largely hidden, as in the oppressive presence of date rape on university campuses.