Voice of the Day: Walter Wink | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Walter Wink

The irony would be delicious if it were not so bitter: earnest theologians have been earnestly persuading Christians for sixteen centuries that their gospel supports violence, while massive outpourings of citizens in one officially atheist country after another [during the fall of the Soviet Union and its bloc] recently have demonstrated the effectiveness of Jesus’ teaching of nonviolence as a means of liberation.

- Walter Wink
from his book The Powers That Be

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