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Book Review: Answering Jihad by Nabeel Qureshi

November 18, 2016 by Bob Trube 1 Comment

Summary: Contends that there is a basis in the foundations of Islam for violent, and not merely defensive, jihad, which neither can be ignored, nor assumed of all Muslims, but calls for a proactive response, particularly of Christians, of love and friendship with the hope of breaking the cycle of violence.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Answering Jihad, Islam, jihad, Nabeel Qureshi, peace, violence

Moving Beyond Indifference and Inactivism: Lessons for Christians from #BlackLivesMatter

December 30, 2015 by Nina Thomas No Comments

What role have Christians played in the #BlackLivesMatter movement in St. Louis, and what lessons have they learned? This panel discussion at the Urbana Missions Conference brought together black and white faith leaders to reflect on these movements and gave an opportunity to a packed theater of attendees to ask questions.

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Filed Under: Urbana2015 Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, BSAP, justice, liveblogging, Michael Brown, urbana, urbana seminar, urbana15, violence

Book Review: The Cross and Gendercide

December 12, 2014 by Bob Trube No Comments

This book breaks new ground in giving a theological basis in the cross of Christ for Christian advocacy and resistance against violence toward women and girls.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Book Review, Confessing Church, dietrich bonhoeffer, Elizabeth Gerhardt, gendercide, justice, The Cross and Gendercide: A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women and Girls, violence, women

Book Review: A Public Faith

October 22, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Miroslav Volf (Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology / Founding Director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture)* believes it is possible to be unapologetically Christian, or otherwise religious, in a pluralistic world without resorting to violence or, alternatively, isolating yourself into a cultural ghetto. In A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good, Golden Rule, Miroslav Volf, Pluralism, violence, wisdom

Public and Personal Encounters with Evil

April 19, 2013 by David 4 Comments

By any account, media coverage this week has been saturated in violence. We have been inundated by graphic and raw descriptions of the Boston bombings, a live-birth abortionist, and even the Senate’s rejection of expanded firearm background checking. These are public tragedies: public displays that evoke charged words like evil, hellish, terror, moral failure. They are also […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: evil, gosnell, guns, Psalms, violence

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