Part 4 of 4 – Mixing Yellow & Blue (read Part 1 HERE) Yellow Team Christians and Blue Team Christians are each right about a lot of things when it comes to living out the Way of Jesus in a Violent Society – a passion for justice, valuing the sanctity

Part 3 of 4 – What the Blue Team is Missing (read Part 1 HERE) While the Blue Team does a great job of recognizing the role that moral agency or free will plays in the violence in our society, works to protect the sanctity of human life from those

Part 2 of 4 – What the Yellow Team is Missing (read Part 1 HERE) While the Yellow Team does a great job of recognizing and attempting to address the big picture, systemic, and historic factors that contribute to violence in our society, they often fail to give proper weight

Part 1 of 4 – Yellow & Blue I have had a statistically unusual amount of violent encounters in my adult life and I also minister to people who have been victims of violence and people who use or have used significant levels of violence in their lives (on both

[This one came to me while I was helping a friend navigate a difficult relationship.] Let say there is someone in your life who is verbally and/or emotionally hurting you. You get so frustrated, hurt, fed-up sometimes that you feel like you are going to break, snap, or throw in