This is barely a blog post – just noting that, on an evening journey to visit a friend in Milton Keynes, I finished my audiobook of the moment: Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence (2014) by Preston Sprinkle. Preston Sprinkle is my favourite Christian writer (theologian? I don’t know where the line is to become one) and I love his books on a wide range of topics – he also hosts an excellent and wide-ranging podcast called Theology in the Raw (so I guess he is a theologian). His books range from the very accessible to the quite academic, sometimes within the same chapter, and Fight is to the accessible side of things. I think the print version has a lot of supporting academic material in appendices. Sprinkle’s thesis is basically that Christians are called to be non-violent – which I think is a more controversial claim in parts of right-wing America than it is here. And, as often with Sprinkle, it’s not a conclusion he comes to instinctively or even comfortably. He always looks to…
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