Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Violence and Our Embarrassment Over the Problem of Evil
Military intervention that Christians support seems to be partly the result of embarrassment over our inability to articulate a convincing s
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Racism and Territoriality
On February 26, 2017, here in Santa Barbara, a group of some fifty community activists gathered quietly in a circle. We joined to commemorat
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Should We Venerate Martyrs or Those Who Use Violence to Prevent Martyrdom?
Although nuance is important and required when making any comparison, there’s still a conspicuous contradiction in Christianity’s historical
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
You Can't Get to the Right Answers Without Asking the Right Questions
For many evangelicals, when they speak of their commitment to nonviolence, this is understood primarily in terms of something you abstain fr
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Trampling Down Death By (Our Own) Death
The Paschal troparion—the central Easter hymn of the Eastern Orthodox Church—includes the famous expression that “Christ is risen from the d
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Nonviolence as Becoming Ourselves
In the beginning, God created all things, but the human being remained unfinished—stunted in the first Adam's apostasy. Since God purpos
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
Violence as Anti-Sacrament
When we consider the sacramentality of the world, the physical reality with which we all contend is sacramental in the sense that it has the
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Andrew Klager
- May 9
- 2 min
What's this blog for?
The Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice is launching a new blog as one part of our literary activities that include the long-running o
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