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Valerie Elverton Dixon

Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon is an independent scholar who publishes lectures and essays at JustPeaceTheory.com. She received her Ph.D. in religion and society from Temple University and taught Christian ethics at United Theological Seminary and Andover Newton Theological School.

Blog Posts by Valerie Elverton Dixon

Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon 1 week 2 days ago
The Bible teaches us: “A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death, than the day of birth.” (Ecclesiastes 7:1)On this day, as the world morns the unexpected passing of legendary...
Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon 3 weeks 2 days ago
When our parents teach us at a very young age to say the magic words — please and thank you — they give us our first lessons in morality. Manners are the first step to morality. Etiquette is the...
Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon 6 weeks 5 days ago
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, at least two members of the audience challenged Mitt Romney on the morality of America’s economic system and of the trickle-down theory of economics. Romney...
Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon 9 weeks 5 days ago
There are times when a story in the news just makes one stop with a righteous indignation.The news I heard today that one in two Americans is now classified as poor makes me angry.This means half of...
Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon 11 weeks 2 days ago
Last year in a blog post here on God's Politics, I suggested that believers pray for the world’s bad actors, among them, the Burmese generals and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. Someone must have...

Articles by Valerie Elverton Dixon

What does holy scripture have to do with weapons of war? Not much.

Torture leaves wounds that are slow to heal.