I’m not suggesting that Christians should be strict pacifists. What I am suggesting is that Christians should be vociferously anti-war and regularly protesting war. That seems to be what the faith demands and expects of us. We should see just war proponents protesting war right along with and just as loudly as the pacifists. But by and large, Christians aren’t widely known as having, as their default stance, an anti-war position. Most Christians, I’d expect, have never even contemplated protesting a war. It’s just not our gig, not a part of our spiritual formation. Being anti-war isn’t a part of our spiritual DNA. And that’s just really, really, weird.

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Richard Beck (via theorthodoxheretic)

A quick google of Richard Beck and I am pleasantly surprised he is on staff at Abilene Christian University. +1 cool point for the Stone-Campbell Movement. 

(Source: yourperestroika)

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