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The Beck Diet Solution
Judith S. Beck PhD
If you’ve tended to think of spiritual warfare as mainly about how our prayers give aid and strength to protective angels fighting off aggressive demons, I challenge you to expand how you think about spiritual warfare, because in the Bible spiritual conflict is intimately associated with political struggle. So I hope this insight leads you to explore a more politically and socially engaged vision of spiritual warfare. But if you’ve already adopted this socially and politically engaged vision of spiritual warfare, I want you to expand your vision, too. For one thing, Jesus wasn’t much of a political activist. When Jesus described the battle he was fighting, he talked more about Satan than about Caesar. And when spiritual warfare is reduced to political struggle it’s tempted toward violence. For example, as we work for justice in the world, feelings can run hot; we’re often tempted toward bitterness and hatred when we face the people we’ve identified as the cause of the problem. So if Jesus was an activist, he was an activist who preached “love your enemies” and “bless those who curse you.” And that battle—the deep spiritual struggle to extend love, mercy, and grace for our enemies—must accompany any vision of Christian activism. Spiritual warfare isn’t just political engagement, it’s also a journey toward love.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
The same Paul who wrote that we are to submit to authority goes to jail for subverting authority. I suggest that there are two ways to respectfully submit to authority: (1) obeying the good laws and (2) disobeying the bad laws openly and being willing to suffer the consequences, thereby exposing injustice and making a spectacle of it.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
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