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The Cross and the Gun: Stephen Bedard on Military Chaplaincy

January 28, 2020 by Randal

What hath the cross to do with the gun? How does the peaceable kingdom that exists proleptically in the church relate to the realpolitik of civil government? And what guidance can we find for a Christian who finds themselves straddling these two worlds? In this article, I interview Canadian apologist Stephen Bedard on his work […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: chaplaincy, ethics, just war, military, pacifism, pastoral theology, Stephen Bedard

Reckoning with the Peaceable Kingdom: A Review of Disarming the Church

July 9, 2018 by Randal

Eric A. Seibert. Disarming the Church: Why Christians Must Forsake Violence to Follow Jesus and Change the World. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.) Carl Norden was a devout Christian. So when he developed the Norden bombsight, it was with the intent of increasing the accuracy of aerial bombing to the end of decreasing the resulting collateral damage wrought […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, Christian ethics, Eric Seibert, just war, pacifism, violence

Can a soldier be a Christian?

April 15, 2018 by Randal

The catalyst for this brief rumination is a tweet from Bruxy Cavey: "One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and the contents of the Gospels without feeling that something is amiss. One may feel that in the name of honesty, Christians ought either to quit fighting or quit calling themselves Christian." […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian ethics, ethics, just war, pacifism

You’re in a dark alley. Would you rather meet ten Christians or ten atheists?

December 20, 2012 by Randal

This essay is a sequel to “Crematoria for the Canaanites?” * * * Perhaps you’ve heard this scenario posed by a Christian apologist. “Imagine that you encounter a group of rough looking men in a dark alley. Would you be nervous?” The answer, of course, is yes. To make it even more unsettling, give ’em […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, pacifism

How will the Christians know when to commence the killing?

November 9, 2012 by Randal

A few months back in my essay “Might God call Christians to participate in a future genocide?” I pointed out that Christians who believe that God commanded genocides in the past are forced to consider the possibility that he might command a genocide in the future. I pointed to Revelation 19:11-18 which describe a cataclysmic […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apocalyptic, genocide, pacifism, revelation, violence

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