I wonder if the Bible itself has even placed some warning labels around texts like Deuteronomy 20. I remember pastoring a church in 2003 and listening to parishioners justify the US invasion of Iraq ...

A memorable precept is ”Justice, justice shalt thou pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20). As is God’s love for society’s vulnerable ones, the widow, the orphan and stranger, repeated often in the ...

In Deuteronomy 20, God’s main injunction to Israel is to not be afraid: “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and a nation larger than you, do not be afraid ...