Cenacle Journal
Posted in Violence on Feb 11th, 2010
In the introduction to his book, Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich*, Dan Bar-On tells of Andre, a 12-year-old boy in a small German town. One day in 1938 Andre comes home from a youth meeting and tells his father that the next day the children are supposed to throw stones [...]
Posted in Peace, Transformation, Violence on May 8th, 2009
A Pew Research Center survey shows that “those who attend religious services at least once a week are much more likely than those who seldom or never attend religious services” to say that torture can often or sometimes be justified against suspected terrorists. (See “The Torture Debate: A Closer Look“)
Negative Witness
The results of the survey [...]
Posted in Violence on Aug 12th, 2007
One night many years ago, an employee of my extended Alabama family came home to find his wife in bed with another man. This is a very old story in human history, but it was a new one to Dale, who summarily killed the usurper. Needless to say, the friends of the other man were [...]
I ran across the following quotation from an interview with the theologian James Alison:
At the resurrection, what the apostolic group began to understand was that there is no violence in God, no wrath, no desire for retribution, no need for vengeance or satisfaction” (James Alison, “Befriending a Vengeful God,” Encounter, October 24, 2004).
Violence and vengeance [...]
Posted in Turned Toward God, Violence on Sep 9th, 2005
One outcome of my visit to the ex-Christian web site (see “Being Scorned,” in the “Darkness” category) has been an e-mail dialogue with two of its habitués. “D” is a young man who sends short messages written in abbreviations and capital letters. (I have refrained from pointing out to him that, in e-mail [...]
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