I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common... →
Stanley Hauerwas
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the... →
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but... →
One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an... →
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American... →
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is... →
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a... →
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our... →
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid... →