Jul 9, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
Meah Shearim by Eric Lubiyov Lately I’ve been giving a lot of interviews on my new book A Farewell To Mars. It’s a semi-autobiographical confession of how I moved from being an enthusiastic supporter of war American style to proclaiming the peaceable kingdom of...
Jun 24, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
I’m trying to listen to echoes these days — the return of earlier sounds. I need to hear the distant echoes of an earlier Christianity. I am beginning to understand how important it is to maintain an ongoing conversation with the Christians who have lived before us....
Jun 13, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
The church in Western Europe and North America is struggling with deep disappointment. We are disappointed with the failure of the Christendom project. The grand attempt to produce a continent of Christian civilization through the apparatus of the state is either dead...
Jun 4, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
What’s Left Behind by Nancy Eckels Jesus is not a conductor handing out tickets to a paradise beyond the stars. Jesus is the carpenter who repairs, renovates, and restores God’s good world. Far too many American Christians embrace a faulty, half-baked,...
May 31, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
A Farewell To Mars (Excerpt from ch. 8) Brian Zahnd Isaiah, in his prophetic poems, frames the Messianic hope like this: A Prince of Peace will establish a new kind of government, a government characterized by ever-increasing peace. Weapons of war will be...
May 21, 2014 | Author - Brian Zahnd
The cross is shock therapy for a world addicted to solving its problems through violence. The cross shocks us into the devastating realization that our system of violence murdered God! The things hidden from the foundation of the world have now been revealed....
