“What would you do if…?”

I’m constantly faced with questions in this vain. “Suppose a crazed gunman went after your family and you had the chance to kill him. What would you do?” I generally prefer not to answer such questions at all, as I consider them pointless and, in most cases, posed for no other reason than to build [...]

MLK’s Five Principles of Nonviolence

The Five Principles of Non-Violence as Outlined by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Non-violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests, as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonagressive in the sense that [...]

Reclaiming the Faith

I was having a think about some of the big names in the realm of Christian Nonviolence, and it occured to me that very few of them actually held what one might consider to be a “traditional” view of Christianity. Adin Ballou, one of the great preachers of Nonresistance in a Christ-centred context, was a [...]