Christian Pacifist Questionnaire: Joseph

This is part of a series of profiles on people who identify as Christian Pacifists. If you would like to fill the questionnaire out, please click on this link and feel free to share it with anyone. I will receive a notification that someone who filled it out and I’ll compile it to make a similar post. …

Christian Pacifist Questionnaire: Michael the Bowyer

This is part of a series of profiles on people who identify as Christian Pacifists. If you would like to fill the questionnaire out, please click on this link and feel free to share it with anyone. I will receive a notification that someone who filled it out and I'll compile it to make a …

Review: The Jesus Driven Life

Who was the real Jesus? Was he just a simple and wise carpenter whose talents and fame spiralled out of control? Was he a god-man, a truly divine individual covered in flesh? Was he a conquerer who was simply scouting out the territory the first time around but will be ready to rule at his …

Christian Pacifists: Petr Chelčický

  Jesus used the way of love even when it seemed to be to his disadvantage. When the Samaritans refused him, he was more concerned about their souls than his personal prestige, and did good to them who thought evil of him. If we are his disciples, we love our enemies, forgive their evils, and …

Prayer Portrait: St. Francis de Sales

In an era in which patience with opposing religious stances seemed almost nonexistent, St. Francis de Sales shone like a beautiful jewel. Born in 1567, he became a zealous yet gentle evangelical priest in 1593. He worked to convert an area which had become almost entirely Calvinist back to Catholicism. Through patient kindness, and despite …

Imitation

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. Philippians 3:17 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:11 Abba Poemen said that somebody asked Abba Paisios, "What am I to do with my soul, for it is insensitive …

Redemption of an Arid Soul

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: 5 “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. 6 Some fell on rocky ground, and when it …

When We are the Villains

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. “The time came when the beggar died …

Seek First the Kingdom

I remember my pastor growing up telling us that he thought it was good for couples to go through a period of time when funds were tight because that was when you could really see who the other person is. I've been through two societal financial disasters: the 2008 recession and COVID-19. In both cases, …

Early Anabaptist Spirituality: Selected Writings by Daniel Liechty Book Review

I’ve been researching early Anabaptism for several months now and the book Early Anabaptist Spirituality by Daniel Liechty is mentioned often enough to have taunted me for some time now. It’s sat in my check-out cart, un-purchased, for months though because I had a feeling that I was going to be disappointed. First, the term …