We shouldn’t be surprised that the early church struggled with the morality of war. Protestants, like myself, too often assume that the return to the sources demanded by Renaissance humanists and the European reformers necessarily renders earlier better, or at least simpler. It is my contention that while we should recognize the important insights of
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In the beginning, God created all things, and He saw that all of them were good. Above creation, God set man as a steward. We were told to watch over creation and utilize it wisely and responsibly to further God’s purposes. The Lord wills that we be fruitful and multiply, and so we farm the
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The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ – Matthew 25:40 Gripping his beloved guitar, 20-year-old Bawi Shin Thang arrived in Spokane, Washington in September 2008. Captured by the Myanmar military junta after they burned his Chin Nation
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One of the distinctive features of popular American Christian eschatology is belief in a pretribulational rapture, “a Second Coming [of Christ]… known only to believers and resulting in their deliverance from earth,”[1] which will precede the “great tribulation” mentioned in the book of Matthew[2]. A number of works about the rapture, including Hal Lindsey’s The
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Father Richard John Neuhaus lived an inimitable, outsized, and altogether unlikely life, starting from a small town in Ontario and winding up as probably the most influential Christian American intellectual and clergyman since Reinhold Niebuhr. The obits in the newspapers point first to the many conversions in his life — from protesting the war in
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If any one thinker guided the American Catholic Church into a new age after Vatican II, it was Avery Cardinal Dulles ’40. The Cardinal leaves a legacy of contributions to Catholic intellectualism. A staunch defender of orthodoxy, Dulles facilitated communication within the Church and was staunchly committed to ecumenism. Dulles considered himself an agnostic by
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When I first met Dietrich Bonhoeffer, through reading his books as a young seminarian, he explained the world of faith to me. This young German theologian who was executed by the Nazis for his opposition to Hitler helped me to understand the difficult religious experiences I had known in America. I had just come back
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