Ted Grimsrud—September 26, 2024 I still haven’t figured out what to do with my ballot for the 2024 presidential election. Our mail-in ballots arrived the other day and are sitting on our dini...
https://thinkingpacifism.net/2024/09/26/on-voting-for-warmongers-or-not-american-politics-11/
Ted Grimsrud—September 23, 2024 One of the first things that came up for me back nearly fifty years ago when I first thought of myself as a Christian pacifist was the question of the Old Testam...
https://thinkingpacifism.net/2024/09/23/finding-peace-in-the-old-testament-peace-and-the-bible-19/
Ted Grimsrud—September 16, 2024 I have always been interested in American politics and presidential elections. One of my oldest political memories is a dinner time conversation with my best fri...
https://thinkingpacifism.net/2024/09/16/the-most-important-election/
Ted Grimsrud—April 22 2024 “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Dylan Thomas) I have come to feel one little sliver of gratitude for the current devastating violence that Israel (w...
Ted Grimsrud—March 28, 2024 The book of Revelation has a pretty bad reputation among many people—not least because it is easily interpreted as portraying quite a bloodthirsty God. And many Ch...
Ted Grimsrud—March 25, 2024 The Apostle Paul was a follower of Jesus. And his social views actually complement Jesus’s rather than contradict them, contrary to what many Christians have belie...
Ted Grimsrud—March 22, 2024 The Apostle Paul has often been interpreted as a major influence in moving Christianity away from the peaceable message of Jesus. I want to counter that interpretati...
https://thinkingpacifism.net/2024/03/22/pauls-critique-of-idolatry-peace-and-the-bible-16/
Ted Grimsrud—March 18, 2024 Christianity, it seems, owes its existence to on-going presence of Jesus among his followers after he was executed by the Romans. Against all expectations including ...
Ted Grimsrud—March 15, 2024 Christianity has focused a great deal of its theology on the death of Jesus and its purported cosmic significance. This emphasis has not had an altogether positive r...
Ted Grimsrud—March 12, 2024 The more I learn about the history of the United States, the more I question whether this country has ever had an actually functioning democracy. In the mid-19th cen...
https://thinkingpacifism.net/2024/03/12/twilight-of-the-american-empire-a-time-for-despair/