Given the long, awful history of violence between groups of people, it's easy to think that humans are predisposed to war. But a new study of violence in modern hunter-gatherer societies, which may ...

The normativity of those texts of a warlike God lies at a deeper level than the surface. I will also say that my rabbi, Joseph Edelheit, and other Jews I know love the Hebrew Scriptures more than ...

Brian McLaren, the liberal “emergent” evangelical activist, re-emerged last week to announce that he is rewriting the hymn “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The hymn is too warlike, he writes, as is much ...