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What Might a Christian Pacifist Have to Say About Israel and Palestine?
With fear and trembling, I wrote in response to an invitation to say something about Israel and Palestine. Having co-written this book about Christian nonviolence, it’s not exactly a secret that I’m a Christian pacifist.
And yet: writing while babies are being killed all around is a different kind of writing.
Take and read.
Thanks for this. As a fellow Christian pacifist, I often struggle to find words in these kinds of situations and you have given words to many of the thoughts I wish I had had. So, thanks tremendously.
I love this and will be sharing it far and wide as I think it’s exactly what we need to hear right now: “But we are in risky territory when we try to establish grades of respectability within violence, as if some of it might approximate how God created us to live. The moral calculus of violence must give way to a harder and more beautiful teaching: that all people are created in God’s own image, and the loss of any person is a victory of death, the last enemy Christ came to destroy (1 Cor. 15:26).”