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Our inaugural Issue explores the radical, disarming, cruciform command at the heart of Christian witness: love your enemies. Across Faith, Policy, Culture, and Art, we examine how enemy‑love reshapes discipleship, public life, and imagination in an age of rivalry and fear.
Welcome to Issue 01
Enemy‑love is not an optional ethic — it is the shape of Christian witness. In an age of rivalry, outrage, and political captivity, this Issue calls us back to the crucified Christ as our center, our posture, and our hope.
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FAITH
Love Your Enemies: The Most Ignored Command in Scripture
Enemy‑love isn’t sentimental; it’s the sharp edge of discipleship that cuts through our self‑protection. This piece shows how Jesus’ command dismantles the logic of retaliation and reorders the Christian imagination around cruciform courage.
POLICY
War Without Hate: Christian Ethics in an Age of Drones and Deterrence
Modern warfare promises precision, but it still produces the same ancient moral wounds. This article explores how enemy‑love confronts the assumptions behind preemptive strikes, proxy conflict, and the seduction of ‘clean’ war..
CULTURE
How to Love People Who Fight for What You Oppose
Abortion politics have turned neighbors into enemies, but the gospel refuses to let us dehumanize one another. This piece reframes cultural conflict as a crucible for practicing mercy toward those whose convictions cut against our own.
Music
Listening Like a Neighbor: Music That Teaches Us to Love
Some songs open us to the interior world of another person in ways argument never can. Dan’s review highlights music that cultivates empathy, tenderness, and the slow work of learning to see others as God sees them.
ART
Broken Vessels
A poem tracing the anatomy of mercy through fracture and flesh.
It reads like a prayer whispered at the edge of the wound — where love refuses to retreat, and grace reshapes what judgment breaks.
“War is the privilege of the rich and the shackle of the poor”
R.T. Hadley
Editor
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