Nonviolent action
Even if nonviolent action does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor, it does affect those committed to it. As Martin Luther King Jr. attested, it gives them new self-respect and calls up...
View ArticleLoving the enemy
There is … no other way to God for our time but through the enemy, for loving the enemy has become the key both to human survival in the age of terror and to personal transformation. Walter Wink, Jesus...
View ArticleAnyone can be transformed
Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way Tagged: faith, God, spirituality, transformation, Walter Wink
View ArticleThe very essence of Christianity
I don’t think that violence is Christian. … the very essence of Christianity is the cross. It is through the cross that we will change. Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way Tagged:...
View ArticleWe liberate a man
I have found Walter Wink’s brief little book on non-violence a thought-provoking read. He makes it quite clear that non-violence does not imply passive acceptance of an inhumane situation. Here’s an...
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