Richard A. Davis blogging
I admit, then, all the accusations leveled at the West for its colonialism and imperialism; I am the first to come forward for judgment. The French, the English, the Spaniards have committed countless atrocities throughout the world over the centuries: they are […]
Fascinating video on Smangus, an indigenous Christian anarchist community in Taiwan
The Lord loves those who hate evil;he preserves the lives of his saints;he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 97:10 (Revised Standard Version) John Calvin’s Commentaries contain many hidden gems. Consider this almost pacifist interpretation of this passage: As […]
In the following paragraph the theologian Duncan Forrester explains how just war thinking is ethical and has become divorced from theological reflection: Just war theory is a way of thinking which has its roots in pre-Christian classical philosophy and Christian metaphysics. It […]
I co-coordinate the Cambridge Religious Anarchism Reading Group in Cambridge, UK. The focus of this reading group is to read and discuss a range of anarchistic religious texts. The aim is to familiarize ourselves with the minority traditions of anarchism within religious […]
A brief note to remind readers of my paper on Luther and climate change in the Pacific, but with application elsewhere. Available here: ‘Climate Justice and God’s Justice in the Pacific: Climate Change Adaptation and Martin Luther’ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67602-5_6 Abstract Climate change activism […]
preached at St Paul’s Hills Road, Cambridge Watch this online https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1288961155?t=0h37m15s Readings Deuteronomy 7:1-11 Hosea 4:1-3 Luke 5:1-11 Sermon Let us pray. Dear God, may these spoken words be faithful to the written word and lead us to the living Word, Jesus […]
With COP26 kicking off in Glasgow here are some of my writings of climate change (also click on the ‘climate change‘ tag for this blog. Davis, Richard A. 2015. ‘The Rainbow Covenant, Climate Change, and Noah’s Exile’. The Pacific Journal of Theology, […]
Testimony forms a major genre of Christian Anarchist writings. Here is an example of this type of writing from Ross E Martinie Eiler writing for Plain Words, Anarchist Counter-Information in Bloomington, Indiana. https://archive.org/details/ZineArchive/Plain-Words-6/page/n9/mode/2up
Here’s some links to and images of a series of articles and comments and responses from the radical journal Fifth Estate about religiously-inspired civil disobedience and Christian anarchism. It begins in the Winter 1984 edition (Vol. 18, No. 4, #314) in an […]