by Monty Self | Apr 16, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Earlier this month, +972 Magazine and Local Call published the accounts of six Israeli intelligence officers claiming Israel was using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system known as Lavender to assist in the selection of targets for military strikes in Gaza. The...
by Anthony Taylor | Sep 29, 2020 | Opinion
The Catholic Church has used the Just War Theory since the time of St. Augustine to help discern when and how force might be applied in the defense of the nation in time of conflict. The teaching of the church regarding war and peace is spelled out very clearly in...
by Chris Heron | Feb 24, 2016 | Opinion
Christianity has had a horrendously complicated and shifting attitude to violent conflict. Here are five moments in Christian history that demonstrate our complex relationship with war. 1. The dogged pacifism of the early church. The early church had it tough. Facing...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Baptists and other Christians responded in varying ways to President Barack Obama’s prime-time speech about proposals to confront a growing terrorist threat in the Middle East. Although previously authorizing limited military strikes and humanitarian efforts,...
by Robert Parham | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion
How should we deal with ISIS, an Islamic terrorist army who beheaded an American journalist, threatened Iraqi Christians with conversion or death, and slaughtered Middle Eastern Muslims? President Obama has promised to present his “game plan” later this...