God’s Word Has a Liberal Bias
Oct 8, 2009 Cedarville, politics, theology
The Conservative Bible Project is a tragi-comic effort by some politically conservative Christians to produce a translation paraphrase of the Bible that removes/edits anything that can even remotely be considered “liberal.” It’s not worth writing much about this because the problems with this approach should be so LOLobvious that I won’t waste my time. I [...]
Tags: beatitudes, bias, Bible, Conservapedia, conservatism, justice, liberalism, non-violence, pacifism, peace, prejudice, war, WorldNetDaily, Worldview Weekend
Decluttering Blues
Jul 10, 2009 personal
In the midst of packing I’m also making an effort to throw out the piles upon piles of junk I’ve collected. I was/am something of a packrat, but I’ve decided that it might not be a bad idea to finally throw out broken knickknacks and receipts from 1994. Hard to believe some of the ridiculous [...]
Tags: Faith Academy, pacifism, poetry
In the Name of Jesus I Waterboard Thee
May 25, 2009 politics
How’s this for some cheery Memorial Day reading? Some true believer sez: “It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. For that matter, He even died to save all humans. It’s obvious [...]
Tags: Bush, GOP, Jesus, pacifism, Rumsfeld, torture, war, waterboarding
Terrorists and Torture
May 7, 2009 politics, theology
Give Me Liberty is an underground student newspaper here at Cedarville University designed to give voice to, apparently, the extremely marginalized conservative voice. It’s an outlet for Republicans & Libertarians to join forces and decry the U.S.A.’s obvious devolution into the U.S.S.R. (this was seriously an article). Also in this April edition, there was an article [...]
Tags: beatitudes, Cedarville, Iraq, Jesus, non-violence, pacifism, Sermon on the Mount, torture, war
An Open Letter to Christian Troops
Sep 18, 2008 politics, theology
An Open Letter to Christian US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan: Who and Whose are you? An ex-Army elite powerfully describes why our culture of violence and revenge is diametrically opposed to the radical message of Jesus. Loving the enemy neutralizes the category of enemy.Unfortunately, even with phalanxes of chaplains ready to distort and press [...]
Look Ma, I’m makin’ friends!
May 3, 2008 Cedarville, images, philosophy, politics
Some people were apparently less than amused with my last Cedars article: This was mailed to me on Wednesday. The unsigned note says “Do You have eany Idea how Many Good Men Died for your freedom of speech. This is how you honor Their Memory. I bet you Feel Proud.” College-level reasoning at its best! [...]
Tags: Cedars, Cedarville, hatemail, non-violence, pacifism
My week
Mar 1, 2008 images, movies, personal, politics, videos
It’s March! I’m going to make it through this year if it kills me. Want to know how my week went? Ok cool. On Monday Laura & I saw Barack Obama at WSU: He is a good man and he’ll be president in 11 months. On Tuesday Dennis sent me this photo: This was posted [...]
Tags: Bush, Cedars, Laura, movies, Obama, Once, pacifism, Taxi to the Dark Side, The Corporation
Derrida-Claiborne-Jesus redux
Feb 10, 2008 philosophy, politics
I want to talk a little bit about my Derrida-Claiborne-Jesus essay. Over the last week I’ve kept thinking about a quote from Jean-Luc Marion that says “Theology renders its author hypocritical… One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology.” I take that seriously, and so it’s with fear and trembling that I’ve submitted it [...]
Tags: Cedars, Claiborne, deconstruction, Derrida, James K.A. Smith, Jesus, pacifism, war
Derrida via Claiborne
Feb 5, 2008 personal, philosophy, politics, reading
Like many students, I was saddened to learn on January 30th that Shane Claiborne’s expected campus event had been canceled. In one sense it was simply disappointing that we missed an opportunity to listen and dialogue with Claiborne in person. More importantly, the incident was disappointing in what it revealed about the “forces for status [...]
Tags: Cedars, Claiborne, deconstruction, Derrida, hospitality, James K.A. Smith, Jesus, justice, pacifism, poverty, violence, war