Means Vs. Ends

I am sure that everyone has now seen this:

It has been all over Facebook for the past day.

What are your thoughts? Is it a bandwagon worth jumping aboard? How are we (as Christians) supposed to interact with movements like this? Specifically, those of us who profess to be "pacifist" and see nonviolence as a large portion of the Christian call. What are your thoughts on supporting military missions such as this?

Personally, I continue to be torn. Invisible Children is an organization I have supported in the past. I think their goals are noble and worth supporting, but the means they sometimes use to reach their goals I question. So I pose the question (feel free to challenge the binary I set up): what is worse? To use means I do not fully support to accomplish a good goal OR to sit and do nothing (because I am currently not doing anything or coming up with any "third way" options).

I encourage you to watch the video, if you have not done so already. As for me, I am going to write a few e-mails tonight, and pray that they do a little bit of good.

CYOA - Coming Soon...

Choose Your Own Adventure! Starting this Wednesday we will be writing on a predetermined Bible verse or passage. This week we will be writing on Psalm 137:


 ¹By the waters of Babylon,
   there we sat down and wept,
   when we remembered Zion.
²On the willows there
   we hung up our lyres.
³For there our captors
   required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
   "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
 ⁴ How shall we sing the LORD’s song
   in a foreign land?
⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    let my right hand forget its skill!
⁶Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
   if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
   above my highest joy!
 ⁷Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare,
   down to its foundations!"
⁸O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
   blessed shall he be who repays you
   with what you have done to us!
⁹Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
   and dashes them against the rock!


Each of us will be writing something based on this passage and posting on Wednesday. We welcome you considering verse or passage suggestions for next week. We will be collecting suggestions and drawing one from a hat each week. Please feel free to post your own reflections on Psalm 137 in the comments on Wednesday. I am very excited, I don't think many people even know this psalm exists. 

The Immanent Zombie Invasion

Over the past two day, I have had two deadly serious conversations about what to do in the event of zombies. You laugh, but you are wrong. Laughing is not will you do when you are confronted with zombies. If a zombie attack is broadcast on the radio, not on the Fox but on CKNW, you will be tempted to run, you will jump in your car and head for the free way. But where are you going? You don't know anything. you are not prepared and traffic jams are just zombie armies waiting to happen. No, a boat or a bunker is the way to go and you want to avoid crowds.


Do zombies change your theology? How do zombies fit into morality? I think if I experience zombies I will stop believing in God not quote Ezekiel 37 and be jubilant about immanent rapture. How about everyone else? Are you prepared to kill zombies? What if they are rage/vampire zombies like in "I am Legend" i.e. they are just "sick"? Will you still believe in God when zombies walk the earth?


Note: Resurrection is not the equivalent of flesh eating zombies.


Thanks Noah for working through these important issues with me.