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Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Triumph of Hypothetical Evil over Real Evil

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There’s a famous maxim that says, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Though Wikipedia says...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Towards an Evangelical Peace Movement

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Billy Sunday was the most famous evangelist in America during the first two decades of the 20th century. Without the aid of loudspeaker...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Chased with a Vow

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By Dan Sidey About the same time we began forming an intentional community our third son was born with some hard of hearing issues. A...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

The Apostle Paul was not a misogynist homophobe!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.” If Emerson was right, then the Apostle Paul might be one of the gr...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Are Christian Zionism and social justice compatible?

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By John Harris Sami Awad, Palestinian, street activist, and born-again Christian began to wrap up his presentation to a packed room of Pen...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

My journey as the "Rich" Young Ruler

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By Dan Sidey From my first days as a Bible-reading Christian I have been both haunted and inspired by the encounter of Jesus and the r...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Law is for the Lawless, Not for You!

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By Mark Drake 1 Tim 1:8-9- “But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Why I Wore a Hoodie for Jesus

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By Dan Sidey In light of Trayvon Martin's death and the fact that his killer remained free I, for a time, wore a hoodie as many in ...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Was Jesus a fundamentalist?

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By Aaron D. Taylor When I was in my early 20’s, a Bible teacher by the name of Dianne Kannady posed a rhetorical question that continue...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

A man finds peace

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By PJ Meduri I had just gotten out of our car after arriving in a village in Southern India. I had barely started walking when ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Kind atheists or hateful Christians? Which does God prefer?

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Pastor Shawn Craig of Crosspoint Church , also a member of the famous Christian group Philips, Craig, and Dean wrote a thoughtful post the ...
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Monday, April 09, 2012

Removing Son of God from the Bible?

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Yet another thought-provoking article from Carl Medearis--Aaron By Carl Medearis There’s an interesting debate going on within Christian...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Welcoming the stranger

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By Adam Maarschalk “I’ve seen the bumper stickers in Dade County in Miami, even in church parking lots, where they say, ‘Will the last ...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Hope and despair in the Middle East

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A year ago I traveled to the Middle East with four friends. Below is an account of the trip from my good friend Andrew Schill----Aaron By...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Can rich people get to heaven?

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I like stories like The Boy Who Cried Wolf or The Tortoise and the Hare , the ones where the smallest of children can grasp the moral of...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

A Nonviolent Response to Joseph Kony

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Today I thought I'd share with you a slightly different perspective on the Joseph Kony issue. In response to last Friday's post , A...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

Should the President help capture Kony?

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I've had a couple of people ask me what I think about the president using American forces to help capture Joseph Kony, a fair question i...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Thank you for the tweets!

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I thought I'd take a moment to acknowledge those of you who have RT'd my articles, either from this blog or from Sojourners. I down...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Christian Pacifism, 30th anniversary Kindle edition--Free!

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This came to me via e-mail this morning. I've been trying to post something every day, but I'm up to my ears this week working on...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

An Open Letter to American Churches for Peace

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I've been interacting with Norman Horn over the past several weeks. He's the owner of the site Libertarian Christians. While I don...
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Aaron Taylor is an author, actor, producer, activist, and the editor of Middle East Experience.
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