Politics
Political Solutions Won’t Save Us
Category: General
Tags: Government, Kingdom of this World, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by h.koppdelaney via Flickr Jesus followers must retain a healthy suspicion toward every version of the kingdom of the world. After all, on the authority of God’s Word, we know that however good a particular…
The Problem with Mixing Church & Government
Category: General
Tags: Church, Constantine, Government, Myth of a Christian Nation, Politics, Power
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by fusion-of-horizons via Flickr Some people insist that the only reason that neither Jesus nor anyone else in the first several centuries of the church tried to dominate the political system of their day was…
12 Reasons for Keeping the Kingdom of God Separate from Politics, Part 2
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom, Kingdom Living, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by the justified sinner via Flickr Satan is the “god of this age” (2 Cor 4:4) and “ruler of the world (Jn 12:30; 14:31) who “controls the entire world” (1 Jn 5;19) and possesses…
12 Reasons for Keeping the Kingdom of God Separate from Politics, Part 1
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Image by the justified sinner via Flickr Jesus came to establish a kingdom that was not of this world. This is why Jesus refused to call on angels to defend himself and why he forbid…
Greg on Politics
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, Interview, Kingdom, Kingdom of this World, Politics, Voting
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
I recently agreed to a written interview with a delightful Christian student of politics. Given the nature of her questions, I’m not sure my responses were quite what she expected. I thought some of you…
Take America (& the World) Back for God?
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Politics, Social Issues, Violence
Kai Schreiber via Compfight Recently Missio Alliance has hosted a series of posts entitled “Christianity and Violence.” Since Greg has written quite a lot on this topic from the point of view of pacifism, we…
Responding to Critics On A Pacifist View of the Syrian Crisis
Category: Essays
Tags: Current Events, Essay, Friendly Disagreements, Non-Violence, Pacifism, Politics, Tyler Tully, Wrath
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
On September 3rd, I wrote a post entitled What I – a Pacifist – Would Say to Obama About the Syrian Crisis in response to a number of questions I was getting, and judging from the…
How We Are Defined
Category: General
Tags: Church, Kingdom Living, Love Your Neighbor, Politics, Zack Hunt
Burstein! via Compfight Zack Hunt wrote a piece called Abortion, Gay Marriage, Immigration, Gun Control, and the Church over at A Deeper Story. He points out that we have a big problem on our hands…
The Testimony of Life and Death
Category: General
Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Compassion, David Kuo, Death, Evangelism, Politics
David Kuo was a friend of ours. He was a passionate voice calling the church away from political division and calling us towards compassionate engagement. He succumbed to brain cancer this last week after a…
Are You Anti-American?
Category: Q&A
Tags: America, Greg Boyd, Nationalism, Political Idolatry, Politics, ReKnew, Video Q&A
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Greg answers the frequently asked question of whether he is anti-American. What’s your best guess? Watch the video and find out!
The Life and Death of MLK and What it Might Have to Say to Us
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Martin Luther King, Politics, Social Issues
Tony Fischer via Compfight Here is an EXCELLENT reflection from Jonathan Martin in answer to a question that was posed to him on how he reconciles his rejection of the politics of this world with…
Election Day Communion Resources
Category: General
Tags: Election Day Communion, Politics, Unity
Rachel Held Evans posted today about Election Day Communion and provided resources for those of you who cannot attend one of these services. Let’s all be praying today for unity among the saints and blessings…
Christian Utopia
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Politics
Fergal of Claddagh, OP via Compfight A little meditation on Christian Utopia and the Body Politic as we stand poised on the eve of the election in America. We affirm that Jesus will indeed “establish…
The Issue that Unites Us
Category: General
Tags: Election Day Communion, Politics, Unity
While there is a great deal of disagreement on political issues and while we can debate (endlessly) on political solutions, there is one thing that should always unite us despite all of this: our ultimate…
The Political Ambiguity of the Abortion Issue
Category: General
Tags: Abortion, Politics, Unity
José Manuel Ríos Valiente via Compfight. As an illustration of the ambiguity of the abortion question when approaching it from a political point of view, here’s an article portraying Obama as a hero of the pro-life…
Oh Constantine
Category: General
Tags: Constantine, Jesus, Politics
Once upon a time there was a Roman Emperor named Constantine who used the enemy-loving Jesus to kill his enemies. What does this have to do with us? Find out:
Christians Should…
Category: General
Tags: Politics
The American Jesus blog recently posted a series of reflections from Christians arguing for different ways of voting including, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Jill Stein, as well as an argument for not voting. It’s a…