Reborn on the Fourth of July

Foreword by Shane Claiborne A Note to the Reader Introduction Movement One Ambushed by My Capacity to Kill Coming into the World and Going to Church Going into the Army Formation 9/11 and 9/12 Going to War Rescue Mission I Can¿t Save Everyone Movement Two The Good Fight of Faith? Foreshadowing the Shadows The Seeds of Discipleship Pride and the Wrong Side Iron Sharpening Iron What Is It All About? Learning a New Bad Word Epiphany Movement Three Conscientious Objection, or Something Else? Serious Charges Love and War Movement Four The Good Fight Chaplaincy, for Better or Worse On Guard Baptism and Rebirth Coming to the Wire Reporting for Duty Lost in Paradise Movement Five Discharge and a New Charge Christian Peacemakers New Missions Centurion¿s Guild Gospel of Rutba Epilogue Appendix A: Justice, War and Conscience Appendix B: Soldiers in the New Testament Appendix C: Theological Reflections on Military Service Appendix D: Conscientious Objector Application Appendix E: Timeline of Events Acknowledgments Notes Permissions