If your family was attacked, what would you do to protect your children and spouse? Is there a difference between state-sanctioned and personal violence? Does nonviolence mean doing nothing in the face of terrible evil?
Pastor Jon Carlson created a Question and Response series on Christian Nonviolence looking at ten weighty questions. The full playlist is available Facebook here.
- 00:01 Isn’t nonviolence hypocritical?
- 01:25 Does non-resistance require neutrality?
- 03:07 If your family was attacked, what would you do? Would you protect your spouse and children?
- 04:24 How many year after genocide and forced conversion can an ideology be considered “nonviolent”?
- 05:34 What is violence? Why does the definition change over time?
- 06:59 If your family was atacked, what would you do? Would you protect your spouse and children?
- 08:20 If your family was attacked, what would you do? Would you protect your spouse and children?
- 9:34 Is there a difference between state-sanctioned and personal violence?
- 10:56 Would you have sent Hitler blankets and food while Jewish people were being massacred?
- 11:59 Why “Christian” nonviolence? What is the difference between Christian nonviolence and other forms of nonviolence?
Produced by Jon Carlson for Forest Hills Mennonite Church.
