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- Does Fear and Trembling defend Abraham, or show that nobody could?
A lay preacher's view, since this text comes up in sermons more than people think. When Genesis 22 is read in church, preachers usually rush to the ram in the thicket, as if the story were about…
- What is just war theory? A beginner’s guide to the ethics of war
Thank you for putting pacifism in the last question. In my church people sometimes assume Christians have always accepted just war. But in the early centuries several writers, Tertullian and Origen am…
- Does ubuntu ground human rights, or quietly replace them with duties?
Thandeka, we have the same tension in Zimbabwe under the Shona word hunhu. In church and at funerals it is often spoken as a duty: you belong to your people, so behave. I have heard it used to tell a…
- Dasvandh asks a tenth of my income. Is a fixed share better than giving whatever conscience demands?
I'm new here, and this is the thread that made me join. I keep the accounts at a mission school and preach on Sundays, so tithing is both my job and my sermon. John Wesley put it as three rules i…