Last night I watched the movie Prince of Peace God of War directed by John Campea. The movie consisted of a series of interviews with a variety of people, primarily theologians in which they discussed Christian perspectives on Pacifism and the concept of a Just War. I’ve been thinking about the arguments they presented ever since, especially since we see frequent tragic accounts of Canadian casualties in
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Category: LawheadLawhead has woven fiction with history in this masterful account of the life of Saint Patrick of Ireland. I looked up the historical account of Patrick in Kenneth Scott Latourette’s A History of Christianity and with some embellishments not in the historical account, Lawhead has given a wonderful and entertaining account of Patrick’s life. Patrick was a self-centered scion of a rich Roman family living in Britain. Although his grandfather had held a respected position in the church, Patrick lived a wild life leveraging his social status and wealth to get what he wanted. This all changed when an Irish raiding party captured and shipped him to Ireland as a slave and he found himself as a shepherd helping another long time Christian slave called Madog herd sheep in an isolated Irish valley.