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For God or Country—or Both?
In 2006 I was discharged from U.S. Army after more than six years on active duty. My time included a 14-month deployment to Iraq, an experience simultaneously encouraging and sickening, and one which would irrevocably shape my identity as a Christian. In war, one can find the entire spectrum of human capacity for good and evil, and my time overseas was no exception. I suspect my fellow combat veterans of faith feel similarly, still trying to sort out the baby of faithful service from the bath water of organized violence. Read more...
Is Your Cell Phone Bringing Hell on Earth?
If you found out you were helping fuel the bloodiest conflict since WWII, would you do something about it? Nearly 5.4 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have died since 1998 due to the consequences of war and we have something to do with it. Congo has been declared the worst place in the world for a woman to live where rape occurs on an unimaginable scale. This joined with endless violence and brutal forced labor makes eastern Congo not too far from hell on earth. Read more...
Holding Out for Justice
The wintry winds gusting between the buildings of downtown Oklahoma City got pretty dangerous last week. Sometimes they picked up tables, or caused bloody lips by hurdling dry erase boards through the air. Let's just say this wasn't the ideal place to try and end the longest running war in Africa. Read more...
No Nukes Is Good Nukes
To a generation that’s come of age since the Cold War’s end, the news this week from the UN might seem ho-hum: A summit-level meeting of the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution laying the groundwork for a nuclear weapons-free world. And? The Bomb is so last century. Read more...
You, Too, Can Be a Cocktail Party Wonk
The Bomb is back. For the first time in decades, newspapers are spinning headlines about atomic weapons, the 20th century’s original MAD men—as in, mutually assured destruction! Read more...
Obama’s Palm Sunday Mandate
Each year on Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, Christians celebrate the unlikeliest of invasions: one man, Jesus of Nazareth, riding unarmed into Roman-ruled Jerusalem on a donkey, surrounded by followers waving palm fronds. His arrival started a chain of events resulting in His arrest on Thursday, crucifixion on Friday, and resurrection on Sunday. Read more...
Examining the Tragedy in Darfur
“Welcome to Barnes and Noble, can I help you?” “Yes, thank you, I’d like any books you have on Darfur.” “Who was that again?” Read more...
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