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Subverting the Voting Rite
Nov 9th
My friend Michael DeFazio and I have been having a discussion on the significance of voting here in the U.S. This is a big issue for Christian pacifists, usually influenced by strands of Yoderian and/or Hauerwasian thinking, despite the fact that neither Yoder nor Hauerwas ever said Christian pacifists shouldn’t vote. (Yoder was a registered [...]
For the Nations, In Spite of Them
Jul 23rd
[Something] needs to be said about the caricature of Christian discipleship as a search for “purity,” as if the most devoted Christians, the strongest critics of violence, or the sharpest adversaries of social injustice were people unwilling to get themselves involved in the dirt and the confusion of everyday reality. Certainly there has been, far [...]
One Night with Dubbya
Oct 14th
George W. Bush may not be directly responsible for it, but undeniably he has done everything within his power to sustain the semantic clarity necessary to make it possible. The “it,” of course, is the happily fresh Chrimerican missionary effort—One Night with the King. Hackneyed acting, pedestrian directing and banal screen-writing aside, One Night with [...]
