Jesus the Heretic
Jesus was a heretic. I now have your attention, for how can a Christian theological educator and church leader have the audacity to claim...
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Jon Swales
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Strange Jesus/Wild Messiah
Jesus is unusual, strange, and unsettling—a stranger, an enigma, and a mystery to both contemporary secular and religious sensibilities....
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Jon Swales
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Lay Down the Sword: A Prayer
Father of Creation, God of Peace, We praise you for your son Jesus, The Lamb upon the Throne. We praise you that your son Jesus said,...
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Jon Swales
- May 24
- 3 min
Jesus & Violence
Through the grit and grind of daily life in Judea and Galilee, there persisted a defiant hope: that one day, a Messiah would emerge to...
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Jon Swales
- Apr 28
- 1 min
Two Religions (Opium for the Masses)
There is a certain kind of religion, An opium for the masses. It Numbs, Distracts, And anaesthetizes us from the pain of the world, Into...
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Jon Swales
- Mar 15
- 7 min
The Eagle and the Lamb
The dual myths of unrestrained capitalism and consumerism articulate an ideological empire that tells us that this is the way things...
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Jon Swales
- Oct 29, 2023
- 10 min
Jesus and Justified Warfare
‘Today the world is on the brink of ruin because the church refuses to be the church, because we Christians have been deceiving ourselves...
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Jon Swales
- Oct 10, 2023
- 4 min
Violence and Myths
I was laid awake last night thinking about the horror unfolding in Gaza and Israel. I got up this morning and wrote down a few thoughts....
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Jon Swales
- Sep 8, 2023
- 2 min
Jesus & the Myth of Redemptive Violence
A few thoughts. Jesus, in contrast to much implicit within contemporary Christianity, opposed what we may call the myth of redemptive...
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Jon Swales
- Aug 28, 2023
- 5 min
Jesus & Creative Non-Violence
Jesus commanded the love of enemies. Does this mean that Christians are to be embrace passivity when faced with injustice and oppression?...
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Jon Swales
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min
Jesus and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Jesus proclaimed and embodied the Kingdom of God. In contrast to the violence and force employed by the Roman Empire, Jesus advocated for...
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Jon Swales
- Aug 24, 2023
- 3 min
Highway to Hell
A few decades after the crucifixion of Jesus, a profound transformation occurred. The Jewish world descended into chaos, society...
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