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This book unambiguously opposes capital punishment as the immoral act of "the killing state." Lind traces Yahweh's saving action and steadfast love for Israel and the world from Moses to Elijah to Jesus, and shows how they are to be emulated on the societal level by obedience to covenant law. This leads to his conclusion that capital punishment is to be opposed because from the perspective of the God revealed in the Bible-determined in Lind's ...

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Entering a field of ongoing controversy, this book dares to offer a new model for understanding Anabaptism--defenseless Christianity. The authors contend that an Anabaptism defined as defenseless Christianity should be seen as a nonviolent Christian movement.

Conflicts today regularly break out along religious fault lines, whether in Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sudan, or elsewhere. This volume contains case studies of ways in which Mennonites have contributed to peacebuilding and reconciliation in multi-religious contexts and offers a theological rationale for interfaith collaboration. (Christian)

When Jacob wrestled with God's messenger in Genesis, he did not let go until he received a blessing. So Jacob was renamed Israel, or "God Wrestles." The theme uniting this book's 16 stories is this reality of wrestling in search of blessing. (Christian)

As the author views it, the desire for religious and spiritual commitment remains strong in North American and European post-Christian society, although now free to take many forms both inside and outside the churches. Drawing on the anthropological work of Ernest Becker, Liechty suggests that by understanding such desire as a result of our human ability to anticipate our own death, we can see both why this urge is unquenched by modernity and ...

As Walter Brueggeman puts it in the Foreword, Not often do preachers take up controversial issues and walk us into new freedom and new courage beyond our predilections . . . but this one does! Not often is obedience cast in preaching as the good news of joy . . . but it happens here! With wit and wisdom, Longacres sermons address current and tough issues of the faith--suffering, judgment, war, violence, family fights, and more. The sermons dra...

Rooted in Mennonite Central Committees nearly six decades of work alongside Palestinians and Israelis, "Under Vine and Fig Tree" examines ways in which the Bible has been used to justify violence and dispossession, and ways it can be received as a life-giving word for Palestinians and Israelis wishing to live securely under their own vines and fig trees. (Christian)

Each chapter of this text addresses some aspect of how the Bible may speak today as Kraus engages a variety of major issues, including christology, hermeneutics, peace, sexuality, creationism, miracles, social justice, and spiritual reality.

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