War

Dark Ops ProvCast Ep 1 Dunkirk
Dark Ops ProvCast Ep. 1: Dunkirk

In this inaugural edition of The Dark Ops ProvCast, Marc LiVecche talks with Mark Melton and naval historian Tommy Sheppard about the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.

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Trump & the Transgender Ban

From the Newsletter: It’s all a question of fitness

The Deeper Issues
The Deeper Issues

This perceptive article written by Henry P. Van Dusen during World War II conveys the import of Christian solidarity to help secure an Allied victory and overcome the deeper cultural and social issues that they face.

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Dunkirk & Millennials

The huge IMAX theater in Washington, DC where I watched Dunkirk was packed with young people. Out of hundreds in…

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The Church and the War

This provocative article written by Donald H. Stewart in the heat of World War II calls on the American Church to guide America toward a responsible patriotism which jettisons hatred and self-righteous aggrandizement while remembering “judgment belongeth unto God.”

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Peacemakers are not peacekeepers

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Was the American Revolutionary War Just?

America has been a force for extraordinary good in the world. Is it possible her origins are more morally complex than generally imagined?

Lessons from the Kaiser?

Christopher Plummer began his cinematic career in The Sound of Music as an imperious anti-Nazi Austrian captain who goes into…

A Church Faces Its World
A Church Faces Its World

This article about the viewpoints of Christians & the Church in response to World War II was originally published in Christianity & Crisis on June 15, 1942.

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