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Politics, Privilege, and Participation: A Response
An engagement with Elijah Brook
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C. Wayne Bratcher
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Is political abstinence an act of privilege?
Considering the merits and assumptions behind a common claim
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Learning from our spiritual heritage: Means and ends
What do a Tennessean farmer, a Ukrainian Jew, and a French sociologist have in common?
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Themes of subversion in 1 Peter 5:1-14
Wearable humility, invisible efficacy, and an upside-down politic
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C. Wayne Bratcher
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Themes of subversion in 1 Peter 4:7-19
The small and humble way; the communal way
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C. Wayne Bratcher
Themes of subversion in 1 Peter 2:1-3:7
Maturing in community and self-subjection as revolution
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On appreciating our governments and state officials, and on Christianity as anarchy
Views that are not only compatible, but necessary
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Death and Taxes
Only the Christian can participate of their own free will
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Is “anarchism” the right word?
Reflection on the merits and deficiencies of a label
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C. Wayne Bratcher
In pursuit of Christian radicalism
What constitutes a consistently biblical, radical understanding of the political sphere?
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Learning from our spiritual heritage: Roger Williams
What can an eccentric exile in 1600s Massachusetts teach us about radical love?
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Redux: The kenotic Creator
Revisiting Kierkegaard's understanding of an all-powerful God and contrasting it with Bakunin's in "God and the State"
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C. Wayne Bratcher
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