Monthly Archives July 2009

What I Tweeted for 2009-07-26

26 July 2009 Musings  2 comments

Busting a little Linkin Park after lunch. #
Reading the Qur'an. A part of me wishes it was in Greek :-) #
Doug is wrong here. Will expound soon RT @PastorBatchelor: How do we know the Bible is accurate in origin and translation?

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End of the peaceful Church

23 July 2009 Early Church, Martyrdom, Nonviolence, Theology, Top Stories  3 comments

There is one canon from the Council of Arles in particular that grabbed my attention, as well as the attention of others who understand the stark reality that the Church was patently nonviolent for the first 280 or so years of her existence.

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I am not anti-America

19 July 2009 Theology  4 comments

Contrary to what some have said: no, I am not anti-United States. I'm not sure I've ever encountered a American non-violent Christian who was anti-US.

What folks like myself are, emphatically, is anti-idolatry, anti-nationalism. Speaking for

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What I Tweeted for 2009-07-19

19 July 2009 Musings  No comments

A little Jimmy Eat World this morning to spark up this very, very busy designing day at the newspaper. "Merry Christmas Baby!" #
Off work today so I'll be at home. We have house guests staying with us. Exciting! #
RT

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Reviewing Shane Hipps on Revelation

18 July 2009 New Testament, Nonviolence, Theology  No comments

I recently went through the sermon series on Revelation by Shane Hipps, pastor at Trinity Mennonite Church. Well, minus the third sermon in the series that is. Apparently the praise and worship time was recorded and uploaded instead of the sermon on

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The Death Penalty Denies the Gospel

13 July 2009 Theology  No comments

A good word from Melanie Weldon-Soiset from God's Politics on the abhorrent practice of the death penalty. I've dropped in a wonderful statement below, but have a read of the original.
The death penalty also denies the transformative power of the

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What I Tweeted for 2009-07-12

12 July 2009 Musings  No comments

Excellent article from our Lois Henry on why we need to ban personal fireworks! "Idiots blowing it on 4th of July" http://bit.ly/B2NzC #
Gotta love Lois Henry: "morons endangering large swaths of the community so they can make

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Churches and Guns: If violence was okay…

9 July 2009 Martyrdom, Nonviolence, Reformation  One comment

Ninthly, he has said that if the Turks should invade the country, no resistance ought to be offered them; and if it were right to wage war, he would rather take the field against the Christians than against the Turks; and it is certainly a great

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Kids can get it; give them a chance

9 July 2009 Nonviolence, Scriptures  No comments

And by golly the kids get it. Without dumbing down or repackaging the life and teachings found in the Good News accounts, with some simple questions and discussions, our kids get it.

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Excellent Bible translation points

6 July 2009 Bible Translations  No comments

Via Wayne Leman from Better Bibles Blog pointed out some excellent statements on translation from Michael Burer of the NET Bible.

Here are the points:

Just because something has always been translated a certain way does not mean that it is

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What I Tweeted for 2009-07-05

5 July 2009 Musings  No comments

Currently pondering the significance of Jesus' body being taken by Joseph of Arim. versus the alternative: being tossed into Gehenna. #
Weather.com finally gets it right: http://twitpic.com/8sg5d #
Oooh. Checked our mail stash and we just

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4 July arrives again

3 July 2009 Martyrdom, Reformation  One comment

And I wanted to share a story of exemplary freedom and independence.
'The opinions for which men go to war,' he said, 'do not deserve those great tragedies of which they make us spectators. Let there be no longer any question among us of Zwinglians

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On this special day, 1 July 1523

1 July 2009 Martyrdom, Reformation  No comments

Not long after the Diet of Worms and the subsequent Edict in 1521, Augustinian monks Johann van den Esschen (Johannes Esch) and Hendrik Vos (Heinrich Voes), sympathetic to Luther and his teachings, were taken captive and branded for execution. On 1

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Nonresistant humility indeed

1 July 2009 Anabaptist, Nonviolence  No comments

Christian humility is not an affirmation of abuse or low self-esteem. It is not a retreat from the world's suffering and pain or a shrinking back from all expressions of power.To the contrary, Christian humility begins with a positive assertion: We

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