On the first day of class, Ms. Griffin asked us why we study history. (“Because the State of Texas makes us” would have been my honest answer.) “Because it repeats itself.” For instance… Jesus left Heaven to live without honor, wealth, or power on Earth. He admonished his disciples not… Read More
“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” -John 1:36 Soldiers drove wooden stakes into the crevices of walls throughout the city, lit them, and waited for the heat to burst the limestone bricks. Smoke rose from the hill for days as survivors from the massacre were dug from the rubble,… Read More
There’s a tug-o-war between theology and pragmatism going on inside every Christian in every nation. American Christ followers are no different. Never have been. The American Revolutionary War was not a “just war” – not the way Aquinas or Augustine defined “just.” More importantly, it wouldn’t begin to meet the… Read More
I don’t have any better words for you today than these I read this morning… What would you think of a pollster who issued a definitive report on how the American people felt about a new television program, if we discovered later that he had interviewed only one person who… Read More
Billy Mitchell General William “Billy” Mitchell, sometimes called the Father of The U.S. Air Force, flew against Germans over France in World War I. He returned home convinced that air power would make land and sea power obsolete in future wars. Fighting wars from the air, he also predicted, would… Read More
Hugo Grotius is considered a transitional figure in Just War history – transitioning Just War doctrine away from religion. That transition is complete by the time Emmerich de Vattel puts pen to paper. Born in Switzerland (1714), Emmerich de Vattel served as a diplomat for the king of Saxony. In… Read More
Shaun Groves