In many church traditions, this Sunday is Reformation Sunday—a time for trumpets and triumphalism, for remembering where we Protestants got it right and for justifying our salvation with a vigorous...
Noting that Jesus’ interlocutors in today’s gospel reading were truly amazed at his answer, Stanley Hauerwas comments that it’s too bad Christians have not been equally amazed....
Two years ago, one of my students wrote a master's thesis defending just war.Then he joined the U.S. Air Force. I suppose you could look at it as a pedagogical success: I helped him turn the corner from theory to practice. But as a pacifist, I took it pretty hard.
