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Salvation and the way of peace—(2) The Old Testament

WebThe Bible presents salvation on three levels: (1) salvation as liberation from the Powers of brokenness, (2) salvation as restoration of harmony with God, and (3) …

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Is violence necessary to win freedom

WebTed Grimsrud—September 4, 2019 A new book challenges many of my assumptions about the role of violence and nonviolence in resistance to white supremacy and enslavement …

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Pacifism in America, part two: Refusing the “good war”

WebTed Grimsrud—June 3, 2019 In the aftermath of the First World War, called at the time “the Great War” (but only briefly, since it was eclipsed by the war that soon followed), …

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Dreher’s “Benedict Option”: Part 4—A Believers’ Church Alternative

WebTed Grimsrud. In reflecting on Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, I have: (1) Summarized things I appreciate in his discussion, maybe most centrally his …

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Christian faith and religious pluralism – Thinking Pacifism

WebThe Bible teaches that God desires peace (health and wholeness) for the whole world, that God has formed a people to know this peace and to share it with the …

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What does it mean to be human

Web“Jesus is the model human being, our guide for our theology of humanness.” Orthodox theologian and Patristics scholar John Behr suggests that, when Jesus utters …

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Pacifism and the Civil Rights Movement – Thinking Pacifism

WebTed Grimsrud—March 13, 2011 Many say that a pillar of human civilization is organizing society in light of the belief in the preciousness of life—hence, we put efforts into health …

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Dreher’s “Benedict Option”: Part 3—Same-sex marriage as the

WebDreher would say (and I would agree) that just as YHWH’s love is manifest in the sun to warm the Earth and in the rain falling from the heavens (Matt. 5:45), so it is …

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Can we trust in a good God in a world full of evil

WebTo insist that God is all-powerful in a world where evil is real, would require us to believe that God is evil (or at least allows evil while also having the power to stop …

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Is violence necessary to win freedom

WebThe resistance to American slavery. Ted Grimsrud—September 4, 2019. A new book challenges many of my assumptions about the role of violence and …

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May 30, 2016 – Thinking Pacifism

WebTed Grimsrud—May 30, 2016. My transition to “retirement” (that is, to full-time writing) has gone a bit slower than I would have hoped due to some unforeseen (relatively minor) …

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Empire – Thinking Pacifism

WebTed Grimsrud—September 15, 2023. In the first post in this three-part Theological Memoir, “Embedded Theology,” I gave an account of my first two decades of …

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A non-apocalyptic reading of the Apocalypse of Jesus

WebTed Grimsrud—May 30, 2016. My transition to “retirement” (that is, to full-time writing) has gone a bit slower than I would have hoped due to some unforeseen (relatively minor) …

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What’s to be done about John Howard Yoder

WebMeanwhile John Howard Yoder, the most acclaimed Mennonite peace theologian and symbol of male power in the church, sexually assaulted and harassed …

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2015 – Thinking Pacifism

Web10 posts published by Ted Grimsrud in the year 2015. Ted Grimsrud—December 14, 2015. At the beginning of one of my classes the other day, a …

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Will Mennonite Church USA survive

Web[This post picks up the story in the middle—here is the link to Part 1] Merger and the “Membership Guidelines” In February of 2000, an open letter was published in …

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Gordon Kaufman, R.I.P. – Thinking Pacifism

WebTed Grimsrud—July 24, 2011 Gordon Kaufman, a giant among 20th century Christian theologians, died at his home in Cambridge, MA, this past Friday. Kaufman, an emeritus …

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Will Mennonite Church USA survive

WebTed GrimsrudThe denomination I have been part of since 1981, the Mennonite Church, is going through a bit of a rough patch right now. The longer-term …

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Should Anabaptists be evangelicals

WebAnd this involvement tends to lead to uncritical support for the Republican Party and various “wedge issues”—most notably anti-abortion, pro-Israel, pro-death …

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