Killing in warA gracEmail subscriber who is a U.S. military officer asks how he should view killing in war. "I have an allegiance to Christ and to my country," he writes, "with the latter subordinate to the former. Can you provide any guidance?"
Bombing Baghdad's babiesA gracEmail reader in Romania writes that U.S. sanctions against Iraq have led to the starvation of about one million innocent citizens. "What have they done to us?" he asks. "Should we punish them because of their dictator? If we do, the same will happen to us. We reap what we sow. 'Suffer the little Iraqi children to come unto me and kill them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven' (my unauthorized version)."
From a brother in BelgradeBrothers and sisters in Christ -- NATO bombs are all around us. Lot of people have lost their beloved ones, there are a lot of people that have lost their properties and our church building cracked inside and outside walls. Tomorrow is Sunday, the day we gather around the Lord's Supper and I don't know what to do. It was announced that they will start bombing bridges, roads, electricity and water systems, and what if the church members come and they can't go back home?
Reflections from a battlefield (two gracEmails) The battle of Franklin, Tennessee began about 4:00 p.m. on November 30, 1864. When the sun rose the next morning, more than 6,200 Southern soldiers and nearly 2,500 Union men lay dead on those fields. No visible signs remain that this yard, on which sits the little rock house in which my wife lived from birth until she left for college, once witnessed a carnage so terrible that battle-hardened soldiers were sickened by the slaughter.
Origin of the racesA gracEmail reader in Ohio asks whether the Bible explains the origins of racial and color differences among humankind.
When the sky fallsIf there ever was a time for turning our eyes and hearts to God, current events scream that this is that time. The United States is bogged down abroad in unwinnable wars against undefined and unidentifiable enemies,. At home, metaphorical bears have emerged from the jungles of high finance to ravage the stock market, which this past week saw the greatest losses of any week since the Great Depression.