Logan Martin Isaac

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MTS-4a: Attitudes

Discussed on March 28, 2013, with Warren Smith as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. "Christian Attitudes" According to Roland Bainton and John Howard Yoder MTS Thesis, Reading 4a - Dr. Warren Smith, March 28, 2013 Roland Bainton, the son and husband of Quakers, himself a Congregationalist minister, writes

RELEVANT

Unlearning War

*Originally published on March 27, 2013, by Relevant Magazine. Ten years ago this month, the U.S. government, claiming a connection between the September 11th attacks and dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded Iraq. At the time, it was difficult to find a critical mass decrying, or even cautioning against, the rush

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"Deceitful Lips and High-Sounding Tongues: Sadoleto & Calvin on Piety and Philosophy in Catholic Reform"

Submitted February 8, 2013, to Sujin Pak in partial fulfillment of European Church History 750 (CH751). The debate between Jacopo Sadoleto and John Calvin is paradigmatic for the debate between Catholicism and elements of Reform in 16th century Europe. The Catholic church based in Rome was being fragmented by social

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MTS 3b: McClendon

Discussed on January 24, 2013, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Biography as Theology James McClendon's central claim throughout his Biography as Theology is that "The truth of faith is made good in the living of it or not at all; that living

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"By the Excess of His Love: Francis of Assisi, Stigmata, and his Cruciform Life of Poverty"

Submitted December 4, 2012, to J. Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Church History 750 (CH750). Bonaventure, a medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher commissioned by his order, the Order of Friars Minor, to write a biography of their founding father, Francis of Assisi, in about 1263. His became the official

Public Writing

Serving Veterans at Home

*Originally published on November 12, 2012 by Duke Chronicle. This Veterans Day will mark the 12th year our nation has been at war. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought America millions of new veterans, among other things. They have served under conditions unthinkable just one generation ago: deployments

Red Letter Christians

How Do You Vote

*Originally published on November 6, 2012, by Red Letter Christians. It has since been removed from their site. What Francis of Assisi said of preaching is equally true of voting: do it without ceasing, and do it on Election Day only when necessary. Voting our conscience as Christians includes the

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"Not According to Power:Divine Love & Human Will in Augustine of Hippo and John Cassian"

Submitted November 2, 2012, to J. Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Church History 750 (CH750). Augustine of Hippo has demanded great esteem for his theology of grace, and for good reason. But the doctor of the church was not without his formidable opponents. His maxim of "grace alone&

Christian Century

“Making space for veterans”

*Originally published on November 1, 2012, by The Christian Century. It has since been removed. If soldiers make it home, the war comes with them. Every day, about 18 of them implode in suicide. As a combat veteran, I find it tragic that election day always falls just before Veterans

TCCW

Soul Repair Center Testimony

*Delivered at the launch of Brite Divinity School’s Soul Repair Center in 2012. Thanks for having me. My name is Logan Mehl-Laituri. I didn't prepare anything, and I usually do—I did at the Truth Commission, because otherwise I usually sputter around and ramble. My first

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MTS-3a: Severus

Discussed on October 24, 2012, with Warren Smith as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Vita Martini Sulpitius Severus by all accounts lived during the same time as that of the subject of his biography, Martin, the Bishop of Tours from 370 until his death in 396. Severus is a

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MTS-2b: York

Discussed on October 17, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. The Purple Crown Tripp York suggests that martyrdom "is the political act because it represents the ultimate imitation of Christ."[1] It is easily inferred, then, that in so far as war is

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"Above, Below, Beyond, and Within:Gender, Virtue, and Transcendence in Gregory's Life of Macrina"

Submitted December 10, 2010, to Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Early Church History 750 (CH750). In Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina, the author attempts to explain the journey of his sister along the path of human virtue. His hope is to articulate how the virtuous philosophical

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MTS-2a: Fields

Discussed on October 3, 2012, with Warren Smith as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Liberty, Dominion, & the Two Swords The concept of constitutional boundaries spoken of in the Lester Fields reading this round stuck in my mind as I proceeded through the text. The term only appears two

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MTS-1b: Yoder

Discussed on September 25, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Prompt for Discussion John Howard Yoder's The Christian Witness to the State (1964) and Body Politics (1992) were selected in order to explore an embodied witness to the established political order, particularly the

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MTS Thesis Proposal

*Originally developed with Stanley Hauerwas and J. Warren Smith in September 2012, including several sessions with each. By Vow and Virtue Alike: A Narrative Challenge to Just War Propositions War in Western Christian traditions was thought to be understood as a moral quandary, answered by applying various criteria from what

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Reborn4thJuly Book Trailer

Video by Jamie Moffett for Reborn on the Fourth of July; The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism, & Conscience (InterVarsity Press, 20212)

Huffington Post

Reborn on the 4th of July

*Originally published on July 4, 2012 by The Huffington Post. God came into my life because I allowed it to happen. I had no choice but to respond to the call of discipleship; to pick up my cross, I had to put down my gun. Today marks my sixth rebirthday.

TSW

The Gospel of Rutba book promo

*Below is what I shared during the book release presentation for The Gospel of Rutba: War, Peace, & The Good Samaritan Story in Iraq at Wild Goose Festival in June, 2012. Hospitality is at the heart of the gospel. It is normal to be hospitable to friends & neighbors, and

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Memorial Day 2012

On May 28, 2012, Veterans for Peace asked me to read from Reborn on the 4th of July at Regulator Books in Durham, NC, for Memorial Day.

Christian Century

"Yes, God loves soldiers"

*Originally published on April 11, 2012, by The Christian Century. It has since been removed. On Easter Sunday, Jake Tapper interviewed Rick Warren on ABC’s This Week, asking the influential pastor a series of questions on faith and politics. Of particular interest were his comments on soldiers and war

Red Letter Christians

Once They Come Home

The Church must rethink how it receives soldiers

Red Letter Christians

Join the Growing(?) Conversation

What happened to War in the Christian imagination?

After the Yellow Ribbon

Narrating War in Seminary

A panel held October 25, 2011, at Duke Divinity School featuring Logan M. Isaac, Andrew Bell, Warren Kinghorn, and Stanley Hauerwas. Alaina Kleinbeck: Good afternoon everyone. My name is Elena Kleinbeck and I am the co chair of a new student group here on campus at the Divinity School called

Public Speaking

JBIC Testimony

*Live performance recorded September 11, 2011, at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, PA, and organized by The Simple Way. I wore chains just like these for over six years, a burden too great to bear for many like me, who stood ready to do violence in the name of the